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In choice C, I have a confusion about the meaning. To explain my confusion, please allow me present a modified version of choice C with the modification underlined.
Modified Choice C: the drawings ... show the buildings <standing> in the vast spaces of an imaginary Wild West.
Here the focus is on where the buildings are standing in the drawing. It is clear that we are talking about the same buildings as the 1st part of the sentence(None of the houses that FLW built actually stood on the prairie) and the contrast in terms of location is also clear( no house built stood on the prairie vs buildings standing in imaginary spaces in the drawing )
Original Choice C: the drawings ... show the buildings in the vast spaces of an imaginary Wild West.
Here the focus seems to be on buildings and not where they are located or standing. It seems to be talking about a different set of buildings. The drawings of FLW's works show/ depict some buildings. Which buildings? The buildings which were located in the vast spaces of an imaginary wild west. These are not the same buildings which were discussed in the 1st part of the sentence, and to provide some description of these buildings, their location is mentioned in the prepositional phrase "in the vast spaces..".
GMATNinja , could you please help advise if I am mis-interpreting the meaning altogether? Since choice C is correct, can we assume that the focus of choice C is on the location of the buildings or something else is at play here(or there is no difference at all?) ?
Modified Choice C: the drawings ... show the buildings <standing> in the vast spaces of an imaginary Wild West.
Here the focus is on where the buildings are standing in the drawing. It is clear that we are talking about the same buildings as the 1st part of the sentence(None of the houses that FLW built actually stood on the prairie) and the contrast in terms of location is also clear( no house built stood on the prairie vs buildings standing in imaginary spaces in the drawing )
Original Choice C: the drawings ... show the buildings in the vast spaces of an imaginary Wild West.
Here the focus seems to be on buildings and not where they are located or standing. It seems to be talking about a different set of buildings. The drawings of FLW's works show/ depict some buildings. Which buildings? The buildings which were located in the vast spaces of an imaginary wild west. These are not the same buildings which were discussed in the 1st part of the sentence, and to provide some description of these buildings, their location is mentioned in the prepositional phrase "in the vast spaces..".
GMATNinja , could you please help advise if I am mis-interpreting the meaning altogether? Since choice C is correct, can we assume that the focus of choice C is on the location of the buildings or something else is at play here(or there is no difference at all?) ?
12 Aug 2022, 05:34
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toothless123
Hello toothless123,
We hope this finds you well.
To answer your query, the exclusion of the word "standing" does not change the meaning of the sentence; it is understood that buildings said to be "in" any given location must be "standing" in that location.
We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Gobal Team
12 Aug 2022, 11:41
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Here's an excerpt from this post:
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If we go with your interpretation and assume the second part is talking about a different set of buildings, then there is no contradiction (there's nothing contradictory about having two sets of buildings in two different places). The words "actually" and "though" tell us that there IS a contradiction, and that implies that we're talking about the same buildings.
Another problem with your interpretation is that it makes it sound as though we are talking about REAL buildings which were located in the vast spaces of an IMAGINARY wild west -- there were no ACTUAL Prairie Style houses standing in the imaginary wild west, so it wouldn't make sense for a drawing to show THE buildings that are actually standing in an imaginary place.
Choice (C), as written, indicates that the drawings in the Wasmuth Edition simply depict those same buildings as being in the vast spaces of an imaginary wild west, and that makes perfect sense.
I hope that helps!
