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08 Mar 2022, 03:23
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Can someone explain the sentence structure of D?
What's the role of "ruled the court.....dogs"? Is it a verb-ed modifier or IC?
(D) The club was not to be exempted of taxes as an educational group, ruled the court by rejecting its argument that the primary aim of the Masters Dog Training Club was teaching people to train dogs.
Thanks in advance!
What's the role of "ruled the court.....dogs"? Is it a verb-ed modifier or IC?
(D) The club was not to be exempted of taxes as an educational group, ruled the court by rejecting its argument that the primary aim of the Masters Dog Training Club was teaching people to train dogs.
Thanks in advance!
08 Mar 2022, 05:26
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Sneha2021
Hello Sneha2021,
We hope this finds you well.
To answer your query, the presence of the comma preceding "ruled" means that in Option D "ruled the court.....dogs" does, indeed, (incorrectly) play the role of a modifier.
We hope this helps.
All the best!
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17 Mar 2022, 07:28
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Good question. (D) is generally a mess, but I read it as an inverted version of "The court ruled X." In that construction, "X" is a kind of object, grammatically speaking -- it's whatever ruling the court made. So if I write, "X, the court ruled," it's the same thing, just weirder and much harder to understand.
But I think it's fair to wonder if "ruled" is a modifying participle describing the educational group, too.
Either way, it's confusing. Did the educational group "rule" the court? What does it mean to be exempted of taxes? No matter how you break down the sentence structure, it makes no sense, so we can get rid of it without obsessing too much.
I hope that helps!
