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07 Feb 2014, 19:45
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The Bengal school attempted to create an authentic style of Indian painting based on the study of the art of ancient India, Indian medieval miniature traditions, as well as European and Japanese art.
A. Indian medieval miniature traditions, as well as European and Japanese art
B. and Indian medieval miniature traditions, as well as European and Japanese art
C. Indian medieval miniature traditions, and European and Japanese art as well
D. and Indian medieval miniature traditions, and European as well as Japanese art
E. Indian medieval miniature traditions, European, and Japanese art
A. Indian medieval miniature traditions, as well as European and Japanese art
B. and Indian medieval miniature traditions, as well as European and Japanese art
C. Indian medieval miniature traditions, and European and Japanese art as well
D. and Indian medieval miniature traditions, and European as well as Japanese art
E. Indian medieval miniature traditions, European, and Japanese art
10 Feb 2014, 11:42
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sivasanjeev
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Dear ConnectTheDots,
I'm happy to respond to your p.m.
To be honest, I think this question is not a great question. It's a little deceptive and it tests a very very subtle point.
There are three elements following the word "of":
the art of ancient India
medieval miniature traditions
European and Japanese art
There's no obvious reason why all three of those couldn't be in parallel: P, Q, and R. Putting the first two in parallel, and then adding the third in an "as well as" construction --- that's also correct, but to choose this over simple parallelism, we would need some sort of compelling motivation, and the sentence doesn't provide that. The construction in choice (A), P, Q, as well as R, is one common mistake pattern for simple parallelism, so that alone is not to motivate the necessity of the "as well as" construction.
One further problem, that makes the question even more deceptive, is the comma immediately before the underlined section. In the simple parallelism case, P, Q, and R, we need a comma after the first element. In the construction that the question says is correct, P and Q, as well as R, there should be no comma after the first term. Having that comma there suggested to me that the structure they want, in choice (B), is wrong, because that comma would be incorrect in that construction.
If this were a well-written GMAT SC practice question, the word "India" would also be underlined, and the presence or absence of the comma after that word could be varied among the answer choices. My friend, it is very easy to write GMAT SC practice questions that are of exceptionally low quality. Just because someone on the web says that something is a good question, don't automatically assume that it is. Have you ever heard the very cynical assessment: "Free ... and worth it"?
Here's a high quality GMAT SC question:
https://gmat.magoosh.com/questions/3266
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26 Jun 2019, 14:16
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Its a problem of lists. The grouping should be the two aspects of Indian art linked with ‘and’, and the non-Indian (European and Japanese) linked with ‘and’.
Only B gets the grouping right.
I'll give you an example to provide clarity in the usage of the above connectors.
I agree that "as well as" creates a dichotomous contrast, but I think it might be a bit misleading to say that it is "for only two things." Instead, it could be used to separate a group of multiple elements into two different rhetorical levels:
1) He likes Baroque choral music, 19th century chamber music, 1980's punk, and gangsta rap.
2) He likes Baroque choral music and 19th century chamber music, as well as 1980's punk and gangsta rap.
Sentence #1 simply puts the four genres side by side as equals. Sentence #2 creates a subtle rhetorical division between the former two and the latter two; it could be that the speaker of #2 implies some judgments about the latter two. We get this hint of judgment in #2, whereas it's entirely absent in #1.
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Only B gets the grouping right.
I'll give you an example to provide clarity in the usage of the above connectors.
I agree that "as well as" creates a dichotomous contrast, but I think it might be a bit misleading to say that it is "for only two things." Instead, it could be used to separate a group of multiple elements into two different rhetorical levels:
1) He likes Baroque choral music, 19th century chamber music, 1980's punk, and gangsta rap.
2) He likes Baroque choral music and 19th century chamber music, as well as 1980's punk and gangsta rap.
Sentence #1 simply puts the four genres side by side as equals. Sentence #2 creates a subtle rhetorical division between the former two and the latter two; it could be that the speaker of #2 implies some judgments about the latter two. We get this hint of judgment in #2, whereas it's entirely absent in #1.
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