In 1850 Lucretia Mott published her Discourse on Women,
arguing in a treatise for women to have equal political and legal rights and for changes in the married women’s property laws.
Meaning: In the year 1850, Lucretia Mott (LM) published something. What did she publish? She published
her Discourse on Women. In this discourse, she argued for two things:
1. Equal political and legal rights for women AND
2. for changes in laws that dealt with married women's property
Sentence Structure:In 1850
(Prepositional phrase modifying LM)Lucretia Mott published her Discourse on Women
(IC; LM - Subject; Published - Verb; her Discourse on Women - object of the sentence), arguing in a treatise
(Verb-ing modifier) for women to have equal political and legal rights
(element 1 of parallelism)and
(parallel marker)for changes in the married women’s property laws.
(element 2 of parallelism)Quote:
A. arguing in a treatise for women to have equal political and legal rights
1.
Modifier error - ",arguing" is a verb-ing modifier that modifies the previous clause. But This modification makes no sense. The argument is not the result of publishing the discourse. Based on the meaning analysis we know that the discourse is about arguing/demanding two things. (1. and 2. of meaning analysis)
2.
Parallelism error - "for changes" is in the non-underlined part of the sentence. Hence we need an element before "and" that is parallel "for changes" Now, we know that the discourse is arguing for equal rights AND for changes. The discourse is not arguing for women per se. Hence, though we have two noun elements, this parallelism is incorrect.
Quote:
B. arguing in a treatise for equal political and legal rights for women
1. Error 1 of option A.
2. Error 2 of option A has been rectified. Now we have a clear parallelism between two entities "for equal right" and "for changes" separated by a parallel marker "and"
Quote:
C. a treatise that advocates women’s equal political and legal rights
1. Error 1. of option A has been rectified. Now we have a noun + noun modifier that modifies the previous noun "Discourse for women"
2. Error 2 of option A. We have a possessive noun "women's equal..." made parallel to a prepositional phrase "for changes". This is not grammatically correct.
Quote:
D. a treatise advocating women’s equal political and legal rights
1. Error 1. of option A has been rectified.
2. Error 2. of option B
Quote:
E. a treatise that argued for equal political and legal rights for women
1. Error 1 of option A has been rectified.
2. Error 2 of option B has been rectified
Correct option: (E)Noun + Noun Modifiers All you need to know about Noun + Noun modifiers - by
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