Quote:
It is characteristic of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as of virtually every great American museum, the taste of local collectors has played at least as large a part in the formation of their collections as has the judgments of the art historian.
Meaning:
The sentence presents few facts.
It says the characteristic of Metropolitan Museum of Art is similar to the characteristic of every great American museum.
We also get to know about the characteristic:
the taste of local collectors
has played at least as large a part in the formation of their collections
as
has the judgments of the art historian.
the subject-verb pair for the first clause is correct,
subject: the taste of local collectors
verb:has played
note that: the local collectors can not be subject since it lies in prepositional phrase starting with
ofThe verb (has) for the second object is incorrect,
since it should be
have to agree in number with object:
the judgements. - plural
The taste (singular) and the judgements (plural) have played part in the formation of the collection of local collectors.
Quote:
(A) of virtually every great American museum, the taste of local collectors has played at least as large a part in the formation of their collections as has
(B) of virtually every great American museum, that the taste of local collectors has played at least as large a part in the formation of their collections as has
We need to maintain parallelism by usage of
it is Quote:
(C) it is of virtually every great American museum, that the taste of local collectors has played at least as large a part in the formation of its collections as have
Correct, as mentioned in error analysis above.
Quote:
(D) it is of virtually every great American museum, that the taste of local collectors haveplayed at least as large a part in the formation of its collections as have
(E) it is of virtually every great American museum, the taste of local collectors has played at least as large a part in the formation of its collections as has
Incorrect subject-verb number agreement.
generis VeritasKarishma GMATNinja AjiteshArun , hope my reference of
object is correct in explanation.
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