Re: Although frantic pace, shortcomings of literary styles, and tendency
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27 Mar 2023, 23:30
Although frantic pace, shortcomings of literary styles, and tendency towards melodrama of Balzac deny him admission to the highest rank of the world’s greatest novelists, his amazing example of what the novel and the novelist could do to capture human and social experience makes him one of the most influential figures in the history of fiction.
A. Although frantic pace, shortcomings of literary styles, and tendency towards melodrama of Balzac deny him - From this we do not know to whom the three characteristics mentioned in the sentence belong.
B. Balzac, whose frantic pace, shortcomings of literary styles, and tendency towards melodrama has denied him - We need to begin the sentence with "although" to show the contrast and all three items mentioned in the list are responsible for the denial, therefore, we the plural "have"
C. Balzac, whose frantic pace, shortcomings of literary styles, and tendency that he was overly melodramatic has denied him - We need to begin the sentence with "although" to show the contrast and first part is a fragment, consisting of a noun (Balzac) only. We need a dependent clause.
D. Although Balzac’s frantic pace, shortcomings that shows in his writings, and his tendency towards melodrama denies him - "his" is redundant as Balzac's is understood to be carried over to all the items in the list.
E. Although Balzac’s frantic pace, shortcomings of literary styles, and tendency towards melodrama deny Balzac