thereisaFire wrote:
I would like to know whether my approach is right.
Please help me eliminate the incorrect choices with the right reasons.
Thanks in advance
Hello
thereisaFire,
I will be glad to help you with this one.
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Option A: A critique and a vision both refer to the essay and follow parallelism. Hence correct
Yes, your reason to select this choice is correct indeed.
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Option B: critique ...following Robert Boyle, and here critique is the essay. It's illogical to say that critique followed someone. Plus "and" and "also" both are present causing redundancy.
In this choice, the word "following" has been used to mean "after". For example,
the decade following 2010. So, your analysis of "following" is not correct here. I personally never reject an answer choice for the usage of "and also". This choice is incorrect because the two supposedly parallel elements can be written in identical structure as we see in Choice A. Moreover, we must use the regular noun form of the verb rather than the verb-ing noun form of the verb. So, "his envisioning of..." is not good expression here.
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Option C: a critique ...after Robert, leads to meaning error. And the "critique ....envisioning" shows as if critique is doing the action of envisioning. Hence wrong.
You are correct about the meaning distortion issue here. However, "envisioning..." does not connect as a modifier with "a critique". These two entities are connected by "and". It means that they are meant to be parallel, but structurally they are not.
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Option D: Redundancy error (and & also).
Once again, the supposedly parallel elements are not structurally parallel. In addition, I do say that the use of the comma + verb-ing action modifier "critiquing..." is incorrect because the modifier is meant to modify the preceding noun, NOT the preceding action. The use of the action modifier in place of a noun modifier distorts the meaning.
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Option E: Meaning change: "as well as his own envisioning". As per this choice, it seems his refers to Davy, whereas the original statements just mentions a general term "vision".
This choice repeats the errors of Choice D.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha