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Many consider Warren Buffett’s multibillion dollar gift to the Gates Foundation more significant than the endowments of Andrew Carnegie, who was a philanthropist around the turn of the previous century.

(A) who was a philanthropist around :-He lived around the turn of previous century and not he was a philanthropist at that point in time

(B) a philanthropist about :-Same problem as A

(C) who was a philanthropist who lived around :-Correct

(D) who was a philanthropist living at Living is incorrect

(E) a philanthropist from around same problem as A
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Sajjad1994, as and when possible could you please provide the official explanation for this question, I would love to know where I went wrong.

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Sajjad1994, as and when possible could you please provide the official explanation for this question, I would love to know where I went wrong.

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Official Explanation

The underlined part is ambiguous: Is the point that Carnegie lived at that time or that he engaged in philanthropy at that time? Choices (C), (D), and (E) all clarify the meaning, but choice (E) is more concise than choices (C) or (D). Although choice (B) is even briefer, the word about is not idiomatic here. (The idiom at about would have been correct.)

The correct answer is (E).

PS: Lets hope the OE work. :)
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C is correct...meaning he was at that time the philanthropist

pronoun "who" is used two times in a single sentence, which is wrong.
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I chose A instead of E, because I thought "who" will modify Andrew and "a philanthropist" would create an ambiguity as modifier since it can imply that it will modify the entire clause and not just Andrew.
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I chose A instead of E, because I thought "who" will modify Andrew and "a philanthropist" would create an ambiguity as modifier since it can imply that it will modify the entire clause and not just Andrew.

Hello SanJain,

We hope this finds you well.

To provide a bit of clarity, in Option E "a philanthropist from around..." is an appositive acting on the noun "Andrew Carnegie"; appositives are modifying phrases that in essence refer to the same thing that they modify in order to describe it; in this case "a philanthropist from around..." refers directly to "Andrew Carnegie".

We hope this helps.
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