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08 Apr 2022, 12:51
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Vartikaa14
Pretty good!
I'll add that the use of "was" is a little confusing in (C). Does this imply that the Congressional Medal of Honor is no longer the nation’s highest military award?
(E) avoids that issue, giving us a vote against (C). And, as you mentioned, "long-overdue" seems to illogically modify the medal/award itself.
And I think you're on the right track with (D): "the nation’s highest military award for long-overdue recognition" is an odd phrase. Does this mean the Medal of Honor is an award for recognition, as opposed to for bravery? Does that mean you can get an award for pointing out other people's bravery? That doesn't make any sense, so (D) is out.
I hope that helps!
07 Jul 2022, 09:06
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Dear Experts,
I have questions about Prepositional Phrase, especially the prepositional phrase at the end of a sentence.
I know that "Prepositional Phrase after Comma" is a modifier. However, I'm not sure whether it modifies the closest noun or the subject.
Examples
1) X replaces Y, instead of Z [ instead of Z modifies X or Y, or it can be both --> ambiguous]
2) X replaces Y instead of Z [ instead of Z modifies Y right? ]
3) X, instead of Z, replaces Y [ instead of Z modifies X right?]
4) More than fifty years after the Second World War, a number of African American soldiers were awarded, some of them posthumously, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation???s highest military award, in long-overdue recognition of their outstanding bravery. [Which does " in long-overdue recognition of their outstanding bravery " modify?]
I have questions about Prepositional Phrase, especially the prepositional phrase at the end of a sentence.
I know that "Prepositional Phrase after Comma" is a modifier. However, I'm not sure whether it modifies the closest noun or the subject.
Examples
1) X replaces Y, instead of Z [ instead of Z modifies X or Y, or it can be both --> ambiguous]
2) X replaces Y instead of Z [ instead of Z modifies Y right? ]
3) X, instead of Z, replaces Y [ instead of Z modifies X right?]
4) More than fifty years after the Second World War, a number of African American soldiers were awarded, some of them posthumously, the Congressional Medal of Honor, the nation???s highest military award, in long-overdue recognition of their outstanding bravery. [Which does " in long-overdue recognition of their outstanding bravery " modify?]
07 Jul 2022, 12:49
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Tanchat
Prepositional phrases can also modify verbs. For example:
- "Tim never drives his car under the influence of alcohol." In this example, "under the influence" doesn't describe the car. Instead, it tells us more about the action of driving. In other words, the phrase modifies a verb, not a noun.
- "Tim wore a piupiu in Paihia." Here, the phrase "in Paihia" isn't there to tell us the location of the piupiu (a Maori skirt); instead, it tells us where Tim wore the piupiu. So again, the prepositional phrase modifies the verb.
The same is true in (E). The medal itself isn't the thing that's in long-overdue recognition of their bravery. Instead, it's the awarding of the medal that was done in long-overdue recognition of their bravery.
In other words, the medal or award isn't, by nature, a thing that can be described as "in long-overdue recognition of bravery." That modifier only applies because the award was given more than fifty years after the Second World War -- it's the act of awarding that was done in "long-overdue" recognition of their bravery. So the prepositional phrase modifies the action, not a noun.
Note that if we did have a modifier that could potentially modify "the Congressional Medal of Honor" or "the nation’s highest military award," it wouldn't really matter which noun we pick -- both nouns refer to the same exact thing, so the meaning is the same, regardless of which one is being modified.
I hope that helps!
