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Meticulously developed into a mainstream style of writing by the great Elizabethan dramatists, blank verse, used in theater to represent the speech patterns of aristocratic characters, was rarely used by playwrights after the eighteenth century.
A. Meticulously developed into a mainstream style of writing by the great Elizabethan dramatists, blank verse, used in theater to represent the speech patterns of aristocratic characters, was
B. The great Elizabethan dramatists meticulously developed a mainstream style of writing, using blank verse in theater to represent the speech patterns of aristocratic characters,
C. Using blank verse in theater to represent the speech patterns of aristocratic characters, the great Elizabethan dramatists meticulously developed a mainstream style of writing that was
D. The great Elizabethan dramatists, meticulously developing a mainstream style of writing, used blank verse in theater to represent the speech patterns of aristocratic characters,
E. The speech patterns of aristocratic characters were represented in theater using blank verse, a mainstream style of writing meticulously developed by the Elizabethan dramatists and that was
The speech patterns of aristocratic characters were represented in theater using blank verse, a mainstream style of writing meticulously developed by the Elizabethan dramatists and that was rarely used by playwrights after the eighteenth century.
A.
Meticulously developed into a mainstream style of writing by the great Elizabethan dramatists, blank verse, used in theater to represent the speech patterns of aristocratic characters, was rarely used by playwrights after the eighteenth century. - Here, the clauses before the first comma and after the second comma act as unessential modifiers. Excluding the unessential modifiers, the sentence makes perfect sense - grammar, structure and meaning are clear
B.
The great Elizabethan dramatists meticulously developed a mainstream style of writing, using blank verse in theater to represent the speech patterns of aristocratic characters, rarely used by playwrights after the eighteenth century. - When we exclude the unessential modifier, the sentence makes no sense. Also, the main subject of the sentence is "blank verse". Moving the main subject to an unessential modifier is not a good idea in GMAT SC!
C.
Using blank verse in theater to represent the speech patterns of aristocratic characters, the great Elizabethan dramatists meticulously developed a mainstream style of writing that was rarely used by playwrights after the eighteenth century. - This answer choice distorts the meaning of the sentence. The original sentence intends to mean that the "blank verse" was rarely used after the eighteenth century. This answer choice suggests that "a mainstream style of writing" was rarely used after the eighteenth century
D.
The great Elizabethan dramatists, meticulously developing a mainstream style of writing, used blank verse in theater to represent the speech patterns of aristocratic characters, rarely used by playwrights after the eighteenth century. - On excluding the unessential modifier, the sentence makes no sense. Also, the answer choice incorrectly suggests that the "development of a mainstream style of writing" and "use of blank verse" was concurrent.
E.
The speech patterns of aristocratic characters were represented in theater using blank verse, a mainstream style of writing meticulously developed by the Elizabethan dramatists and that was rarely used by playwrights after the eighteenth century. - The use of "that was" suggests that there should have been "that was" before "meticulously developed"