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So dogged were Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry, and her lobbying for wage and hour reform was persistent, Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government, rather than as a social worker.
(A) and her lobbying for wage and hour reform was persistent,
(B) and lobbying for wage and hour reform was persistent, so that
(C) her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that
(D) lobbying for wage and hour reform was so persistent,
(E) so persistent her lobbying for wage and hour reform, that
We see that the first nonunderlined portion is the following:
So dogged were Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry,That wording is an inverted version of the following:
Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry were so dogged,We can now tell that what follows must at some point include a "that," so that we have.
Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry were so dogged ... that ....or as we see in the question
So dogged were Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry ... that ....Scanning the sentence versions, we see that only (B), (C), and (E) include "that." So, we can eliminate (A) and (D).
The next thing that we can use to eliminate a choice is "so that" in (B).
Notice that neither of the following make sense.
Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry were so dogged ... so that Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government, rather than as a social worker.So dogged were Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry ... so that Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government, rather than as a social worker.We don't need a second "so." Thus, the "so" in "so that" has no logical function and makes the (B) version illogical.
We are left with (C) and (E).
Here are the (C) and (E) versions.
(C) version: So dogged were Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry, her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent, that Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government, rather than as a social worker.
(E) version: So dogged were Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry, so persistent her lobbying for wage and hour reform, that Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government, rather than as a social worker.In the (C) version, we have an absolute phrase, "her lobbying for wage and hour reform persistent." That phrase should modify the clause that appears before it, but notice that the fact that "her lobbying for wage and hour reform" was "persistent" is a different topic from the topic of how dogged her investigations were. So, it doesn't make sense for that absolute phrase to modify that clause.
In contrast, in the (E) version, "so persistent her lobbying for wage and hour reform" expresses a SECOND REASON why "Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government."
So, we have two reasons, Francis Perkins' investigations were so dogged and her lobbying was so persistent, why Alfred E. Smith and Franklin D. Roosevelt recruited Perkins to work within the government.
Now, (E) may seem odd because there's no verb in "so persistent her lobbying for wage and hour reform." However, that wording is OK because the "was" is understood. In other words, "were" in the first clause is understood to be repeated as "was" in the second clause even though "was" is not written.
So, the beginning of the (E) version is basically the equivalent of the following:
Frances Perkins’ investigations of the garment industry were so dogged, and her lobbying for wage and hour reform were so persistentWe don't need "and" or a second verb though because of how the (E) version is written in the question.
Thus, the correct answer is (E).
Yes, the (E) version uses types of wording we're not accustomed to seeing, but the clear errors in all the other versions force us to consider (E) and see that perhaps it works even without "and" or a verb in the second clause.
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