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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was [#permalink] New post   05 Jan 2020, 05:24
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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was unprecedented in its firsthand accounts of the indignities suffered by women and because it was eloquent and passionate in exposing and criticizing these indignities.

(A) and because it was eloquent and passionate in exposing and criticizing

(B) and in that it was eloquent and passionate when exposing and criticizing

(C) as well as the eloquence and passion it had in exposing and criticizing

(D) and in the eloquence and passion with which it exposed and criticized

(E) but also its eloquent and passionate exposure and criticism of
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Re: Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was [#permalink] New post   05 Jan 2020, 08:25
Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was unprecedented in its firsthand accounts of the indignities suffered by women and because it was eloquent and passionate in exposing and criticizing these indignities.

The question tests parallelism concept: the work was unprecedented in .... and in... Only option D maintains parallelism.

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(A) and because it was eloquent and passionate in exposing and criticizing
as we have parallelism marker "and", we need two items grammatically and logically parallel. We have a subordinate clause starting with "because" after "and", but we have any other subordinate clause presiding "and". For this reason, A is incorrect.

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(B) and in that it was eloquent and passionate when exposing and criticizing
- parallelism is better here: now we have two properties of "A Vindication of the Rights of Woman" that make the work "unprecedented". Let's keep this option...

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(C) as well as the eloquence and passion it had in exposing and criticizing
- parallelism is not properly maintained, and the use of simple past tense is unjustifiable: it is a fact about the work and it is like general truth should be expressed with simple present.

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(D) and in the eloquence and passion with which it exposed and criticized
- correct choice. The option bits the option B

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(E) but also its eloquent and passionate exposure and criticism of
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Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was [#permalink] New post   05 Jan 2020, 08:40
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The pair 'in X', takes 'in Y' as a parallel companion. Here the X is ' in its firsthand accounts' and the Y is 'in the eloquence and passion". One finds such prepositionally parallel phrases only in D. Therefore, D.
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Re: Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was [#permalink] New post   19 Feb 2020, 17:55
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The pair 'in X', takes 'in Y' as a parallel companion. Here the X is ' in its firsthand accounts' and the Y is 'in the eloquence and passion". One finds such prepositionally parallel phrases only in D. Therefore, D.


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Is it safe to say that "was unprecedented" is simple past tense so " it exposed and criticized" should also be in simple past tense? Because only option D does that but I am not sure if that's the right approach.
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Re: Mary Wollstonecraft's A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) was [#permalink] New post   20 Feb 2020, 05:45
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Not that easily. After all,-- was unprecedented -- is passive voice verb while exposed and criticized are active verbs. Such a verb to verb parallelism will not work here, since the part after the conjunction 'and' is not an IC like in the other part. Exposed and criticized are merely the verbs of a relative clause.

It will be grammatically faulty.
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