Once considered the most elegant restaurant in France, each weekday no

Question

Once considered the most elegant restaurant in France,  each weekday now serves tourists by the busload who dine on cuisine buffet style at Le Fonte.

(A) each weekday now serves tourists by the busload who dine on cuisine buffet style at Le Fonte.

(B) Le Fonte now serves each weekday tourists by the busload who dine on cuisine served buffet style.

(C) tourists by the busload who dine on cuisine served buffet style are now served each weekday at Le Fonte.

(D) tourists by the busload who dine on cuisine are now served buffet style at Le Fonte each weekday.

(E) Le Fonte now serves tourists by the busload who dine on cuisine served buffet style each weekday.

arshi016 · Accepted Answer

(B) Le Fonte now serves each weekday tourists by the busload who dine on cuisine served buffet style.
(E) Le Fonte now serves tourists by the busload who dine on cuisine served buffet style each weekday.

In (B), "each weekday" is modifying the phrase "Le Fonte now serves" i.e. Le Fonte serves each day. But in (E), "each weekday" is modifying "tourists who dine on cuisine served buffet style" i.e. Le Fonte serves tourists who dine on buffet each weekday- which is clearly not the intent of the sentence. Hence, (B) is correct answer.

shridhar786 · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

A modifier should be as close as possible to the what it modifies. "Once considered the most elegant restaurant in France" modifies Le Fonte, so we can eliminate all except B and E.
In E, the meaning of the original sentence is changed. The choice implies that the same tourists dine buffet style each weekday.
Choice B sounds awkward due to the adverbial phrase "each weekday" between the verb and its direct object.
However, it is the only answer choice that does not cause ambiguity and it is technically correct. Therefore, choice B is the most appropriate choice.

Rainman91 · Answer

2019, and still we do not have an expert verify the answers. I will usually discard sentences like these so as to not overload my brain learning confusing sentences. If it were OG, then the confusion would not exist.

reesvk · Answer

lots of debate going on between B & E. would appreciate an expert comment on this.

RonTargetTestPrep · Answer

Neither of those choices is meaningfully better or worse than the other.

The only difference between them is in what's being modified by "each weekday". In one choice, this modifier gives the schedule on which the restaurant "serves tourists by the busload"; in the other one, it's giving the schedule on which food is "served buffet-style".

Realistically, though, there's no actual difference in meaning between these two. The day when people come and eat the restaurant's food is always going to be the same day on which the food is put on the buffet (imagine if those were different days!!), so these two placements of the modifier yield precisely the same meaning.

RonTargetTestPrep · Answer

In this case, that'd be a smart decision!

This problem has major issues. Among other things, the given OA is exactly equivalent to a different choice (see above)—and there are errors in ALL of the choices. (In A, C, D the initial modifier is describing something other than the restaurant; B and E each use the word "serve" twice, creating redundancy.)

Aditi31 · Answer

There is no explanations given for "busload who". Please enlighten me on this.

RonTargetTestPrep · Answer

"Who..." isn't a modifier of "busload". It's a modifier of "people by the busload".

Basically, you have two different modifiers that both apply to the noun "people"... so  one  of them, of course, has to come first.

Another example:
 Citizens of Spain who move to México can acquire Mexican citizenship in as little as one year.

In this sentence, obviously, Spain is not moving to Mexico! The sentence is about  citizens of Spain  who move to Mexico.
If you're not sure why "in Spain" is the modifier that follows  Citizens  here, try putting it anywhere else (farther away from  Citizens ) and you'll notice fairly quickly that the sentence becomes nonsense if you start it with anything other than  Citizens of Spain... .

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  Aditi31 ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, here the "who" modifier is actually acting upon the noun "tourists"; "by the busload" is a prepositional phrase, and when a noun phrase is formed using a prepositional phrase, a modifier that acts upon the phrase acts upon the main noun, even if a noun that is part of the prepositional phrase is closer to the modifier.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  reesvk ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the placement of "each weekday" in Option E alters the meaning, very slightly; it implies that the action of cuisine being served is done each weekday; the intended meaning is that the action of serving tourists by the busload is done each weekday.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

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