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The application of discrete paintbrush strokes of unmixed primary colors directly onto the canvas results in the simulation of the way the eye actually perceives light; this painting style, with the bold effects and stark emotive power that scandalized the public when first presented, is known as Impressionism.
A. bold effects and stark emotive power that scandalized the public when first presented, is
B. bold effects and stark emotive power that scandalized the public when first presented, are
C. bold affects and stark emotive power causing a public scandal when first presented, are
D. scandalous emotive power and bold effects of its first presentation to the public, being
E. bold effects and stark emotive power, that scandalized the public when first presented, is
A. bold effects and stark emotive power that scandalized the public when first presented, is
B. bold effects and stark emotive power that scandalized the public when first presented, are
C. bold affects and stark emotive power causing a public scandal when first presented, are
D. scandalous emotive power and bold effects of its first presentation to the public, being
E. bold effects and stark emotive power, that scandalized the public when first presented, is
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The application of discrete paintbrush strokes of unmixed primary colors directly onto the canvas results in the simulation of the way the eye actually perceives light; this painting style, with the bold effects and stark emotive power that scandalized the public when first presented, is known as Impressionism.
A. bold effects and stark emotive power that scandalized the public when first presented, is
This answer choice is grammatically correct, because the singular verb is agrees with the singular subject painting style.
What helps us identify this question as a Subject Verb Agreement question is the following Stop Sign:
- a long distance between subject and verb
The presence of this Stop Sign indicates that you should check whether the sentence's subject and verb are in agreement.
B. bold effects and stark emotive power that scandalized the public when first presented, are
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect, because the plural verb are does not agree with the singular subject painting style.
What helps us identify this question as a Subject Verb Agreement question is the following Stop Sign:
- a long distance between subject and verb
The presence of this Stop Sign indicates that you should check whether the sentence's subject and verb are in agreement.
C. bold affects and stark emotive power causing a public scandal when first presented, are
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect because the plural verb are does not agree with the singular subject painting style.
In addition, this answer choice introduces a change in meaning by replacing the word effects with affects.
Effect is a noun, close in meaning to result or consequence. In this sentence bold effects means the bold appearance of the paint, the result of the painting style.
Affect can either be a verb (to influence) or a noun meaning feeling or emotion. Its use as a noun in the corrected sentence is not logical, because a painting style does not itself have feelings.
D. scandalous emotive power and bold effects of its first presentation to the public, being
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect because it changes the conjugated verb is to a non-conjugated verb being, creating a fragment. In the corrected sentence, the subject this painting style is missing a conjugated verb.
E. bold effects and stark emotive power, that scandalized the public when first presented, is
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The pronoun that (when used as a relative pronoun) cannot appear after a comma, while which must appear after a comma. In this, that and which are different from all other relative pronouns, which can follow a comma or not follow a comma.
Whenever you see one of the following Stop Signs:
- Who, which, that, whose, whom: check that
(a) the relative pronoun immediately follows the noun it describes;
(b) the correct relative pronoun is used; and
(c) the use of defining and non-defining clauses is correct.
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