daagh wrote:
For the coach who manages to keep them uninjured, providing them with the best physical therapists, and training them carefully, Olympic runners are achieving upwards of 30 personal records each year.
(A) providing them with the best physical therapists, and training them carefully, Olympic runners are achieving
(B) providing them with the best physical therapists, and trained carefully, the Olympic runner achieves
(C) providing with the best physical therapists, and training them carefully, Olympic runners are achieving
(D) providing with the best physical therapists, and trained carefully, the Olympic runners achieves
(E) provided with the best physical therapists, and trained carefully, Olympic runners will achieve
1. I doubt whether this is an official GMAT Prep question. Somebody has plagiarized the original question cited by Abhimana. Will GMAT Prep ever give such a problem with cosmetic changes? A small query to the original poster. What is the real source of this question?
2. The basic tenet of a verb+ing modification that is separated by a comma from the previous part is to modify the subject and its action of the previous clause. If there is no previous clause as in this context, where we find only an introductory prepositional noun phrase, then the "verb+ing" will be modifying the following noun after the end of the modifier. As such, 'the modifiers 'providing' and 'training' are modifying the runners, which is diametrically opposite to what the text says. They are the people who are provided and trained.
That is the reason A, B, C, and D are instantly out. B has the additional problem of subject-pronoun error. D has parallelism problem too. In D, yet again, I wonder what the phrase "runners achieves" is doing in a GMAT Prep question.
That leaves us with E with correct modification and sub-pronoun agreement.
daagh i get that you here are saying but what about the comma+ verb+ed here? Doesnt comma+verb+ed modify the noun that precedes them? hence, in E wont verb+ed will modify the runners?
Or is it not the case here cause verb+ed is making a parallel structure
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