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Aviral1995 wrote:
GMATNinja Could you please help me with this question-
https://gmatclub.com/forum/published-du ... 02278.htmlI am confused b/w C and E
i rejected C beause in C we donot have a clear reference for his friend in "his friend Voltaire’s fictional Candide"
Please help
Bunuel wrote:
Published during the late eighteenth century, Diderot’s factual Encyclopedia and his friend Voltaire’s fictional Candide were the cause of such a sensational scandal, and both men prudently chose to embark on extended vacations in nearby Austria.
(A) Diderot’s factual Encyclopedia and his friend Voltaire’s fictional Candide were the cause of such a sensational scandal, and
(B) Diderot and his friend Voltaire’s caused such a sensational scandal with their factual Encyclopedia and fictional Candide, respectively, that
(C) Diderot’s factual Encyclopedia and his friend Voltaire’s fictional Candide were the cause of a scandal so sensational that
(D) the scandal caused by Diderot’s factual Encyclopedia and his friend Voltaire’s fictional Candide was so sensational
(E) a factual Encyclopedia by Diderot and the fictional Candide, by his friend Voltaire, caused a sensational scandal, which
I'm not 100% sure that this question is really from an official source -- the "1000 Series" questions are pretty dodgy.
But for whatever it's worth: in (C), we have "Diderot’s factual
Encyclopedia and
his friend Voltaire’s fictional
Candide..." I'm assuming that your doubt is about the pronoun "his"? There's no problem there at all: "his" clearly refers back to "Diderot's", so that gives us "Diderot's factual
Encyclopedia and
Diderot's friend Voltaire’s fictional
Candide..." Granted, that's a mouthful since there are two possessive nouns in the same phrase, but there's nothing wrong with it: Diderot had a friend named Voltaire, and that guy wrote a work of fiction called
Candide.
(I think somebody made me read
Candide in high school. I have absolutely zero memory of it.
)
So there's nothing to worry about, but let me know if I'm misinterpreting your question. I hope this helps!
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