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In court society, the awareness of social distinctions and [u]knowing [#permalink] New post   24 Oct 2021, 09:00
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In court society, the awareness of social distinctions and knowing how to restrain one's behavior in the presence of nobility, a skill which was assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and formal instruction, led to the refinements associated with the modern notion of civilization.

A. knowing how to restrain one's behavior in the presence of nobility, a skill which was assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and formal instruction

B. to know how to restrain one's behavior in the presence of nobility, skills which were assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and with formal instruction

C. restrained behavior in the presence of nobility, a skill assiduously inculcated through observing, imitating, and formal instructing

D. the knowledge about how one should restrain one's behavior in nobility's presence, a skill assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and formal instruction

E. the knowledge of how to restrain one's behavior in the presence of nobility, a skill which was assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and formal instruction
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In court society, the awareness of social distinctions and [u]knowing [#permalink] New post   24 Oct 2021, 10:17
Eliminate : A, B, and C lacks parallelism and intended meaning error.

Pending with D, and E

Eliminate D flaw in intended meaning and parallelism

D.In court society,
the awareness of social distinctions and
the knowledge about (how one should restrain one's behavior in nobility's presence),
a skill assiduously inculcated through
observation,
imitation, and
formal instruction
led to the refinements associated with the modern notion of civilization

Correct Option E correct Parallelism and intended meaning.
E.In court society,
the awareness of social distinctions and
the knowledge of how to restrain one's behavior in the presence of nobility,
a skill which was assiduously inculcated through
observation,
imitation, and
formal instruction
led to the refinements associated with the modern notion of civilization

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Re: In court society, the awareness of social distinctions and [u]knowing [#permalink] New post   24 Oct 2021, 14:38
i think the correct one is B as it is the only one covering both points (awareness and knowledge) as part of the rest of non underlined sentence.
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Re: In court society, the awareness of social distinctions and [u]knowing [#permalink] New post   04 Dec 2021, 03:30
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In court society, the awareness of social distinctions and knowing how to restrain one's behavior in the presence of nobility, a skill which was assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and formal instruction, led to the refinements associated with the modern notion of civilization.

A. knowing how to restrain one's behavior in the presence of nobility, a skill which was assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and formal instruction

Incorrect.

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The construction A and B (awareness and knowing) requires that A and B belong to the same part of speech. In this case, A (awareness) is a noun whereas B (knowing) is a non-conjugated verb.

What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: A and/or/but B

When you identify this structure, make sure it follows these rules:

    1. A and B must be of the same part of speech.
    2. A and B must be logically parallel.



B. to know how to restrain one's behavior in the presence of nobility, skills which were assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and with formal instruction

Incorrect.

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The construction A and B (awareness and to know) requires that A and B belong to the same part of speech. In this case, A (awareness) is a noun whereas B (to know) is a non-conjugated verb.

In addition, this answer choice unnecessarily changes the original meaning of the sentence by changing the singular noun skill to the plural noun skills. This implies that awareness and to know are both skills, when in fact only to know how to restrain one's behavior is a skill, as written in the original answer choice.

A skill is the knowledge of how to do something, but awareness of social distinctions is not knowledge of how to do something and is therefore not really a skill. Note how the meaning change results an illogical answer choice.


C. restrained behavior in the presence of nobility, a skill assiduously inculcated through observing, imitating, and formal instructing

Incorrect.

While this answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original sentence by changing the verb knowing (how to restrain one's behavior) to a noun (restrained) behavior, this change creates a new logical mistake. In the corrected sentence, the word awareness relates to both items of the parallelism. However, awareness of...restrained behavior does not make sense.

In addition, the corrected sentence unnecessarily changes the list of nouns observation, imitation and instruction to observing, imitating, and formal instructing. While the resulting list is grammatically parallel and therefore appears to be correct, it violates the rule that when a simple noun form exists it should not be changed to a to V+ing form serving as a noun replacement. This is considered a mistake that should be eliminated in Sentence Correction questions.


D. the knowledge about how one should restrain one's behavior in nobility's presence, a skill assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and formal instruction

Incorrect.

While this answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original sentence by changing the verb knowing (how to restrain one's behavior) to a noun knowledge (about how one should, etc.), it introduces a new grammatical mistake. The form of the possession the presence of nobility is correct, while the form nobility's presence is incorrect.

Remember that expressing possession by using of is always allowed, whereas expressing possession using 's is only allowed with concrete (that is, tangible, or not abstract) nouns. Nobility is an abstract noun.

    Incorrect: love's power
    Correct: the power of love




E. the knowledge of how to restrain one's behavior in the presence of nobility, a skill which was assiduously inculcated through observation, imitation, and formal instruction

What helps us identify this question as a Parallelism question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign: A and/or/but B

When you identify this structure, make sure it follows these rules:

    1. A and B must be of the same part of speech.
    2. A and B must be logically parallel.

This answer choice corrects the Parallelism mistake in the original sentence by changing the non-conjugated verb knowing to the noun knowledge.
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