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The best way for scholars to analyze fragmentary poems is to attempt to reconstruct it into a complete poem based on both the sense and the meter of the available fragments.
A. to attempt to reconstruct it into a complete poem based on both the sense and the meter of the available fragments
B. if they attempt a reconstruction of it into complete poems based on both the sense and the meter o of the available fragments
C. for them to be reconstructed into complete poems basing it on both the sense and the meter of fragments being available
D. if an attempt is made for reconstructing them into complete poems based on both the sense and the meter of the fragments available to them
E. to attempt to reconstruct them into complete poems based on both the sense and the meter of the available fragments
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Hi, I want to know if "reconstruct into" is an idiom, please.
A. to attempt to reconstruct it into a complete poem based on both the sense and the meter of the available fragments
B. if they attempt a reconstruction of it into complete poems based on both the sense and the meter o of the available fragments
C. for them to be reconstructed into complete poems basing it on both the sense and the meter of fragments being available
D. if an attempt is made for reconstructing them into complete poems based on both the sense and the meter of the fragments available to them
E. to attempt to reconstruct them into complete poems based on both the sense and the meter of the available fragments
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As written, this sentence contains a major problem—the singular pronoun it and a complete poem refer to the plural poems mentioned in the non-underlined portion of the sentence; thus we eliminate both (A) and (B). For the sake of parallelism, the infinitive to analyze must be balanced by another infinitive, and so choice (D) can be discarded because it doesn't use a parallel construction.
Choice (C) uses an awkward passive infinitive to be reconstructed, and the participle basing cannot modify poems, which its position deems necessary. Also, it, the object of basing , has no singular noun to refer to; and last but not least, being available is unidiomatic. Eliminate (C). Choice (E) fixes the pronoun problem with the plural them and poems without making any other changes and is, therefore, the correct answer.
Choice (C) uses an awkward passive infinitive to be reconstructed, and the participle basing cannot modify poems, which its position deems necessary. Also, it, the object of basing , has no singular noun to refer to; and last but not least, being available is unidiomatic. Eliminate (C). Choice (E) fixes the pronoun problem with the plural them and poems without making any other changes and is, therefore, the correct answer.
Hi, I want to know if "reconstruct into" is an idiom, please.
26 Jan 2014, 21:55
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Hi, I want to know if "reconstruct into" is an idiom, please.
Not necessarily.
The face was reconstructed from the dead tissue.
The face was reconstructed in great detail
The face was reconstructed on an experimental basis.
Reconstruct may take a number of prepositions.
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Can somebody explain why answer D is wrong ?
