rishabhmishra wrote:
MAnkur wrote:
Hi Rishabh
In my understanding E is incorrect as there are two verbs linked and was for a single subject completion. On the other hand linking and permitting are parallel and both seem to modify the result of the preceding clause The completion in 1925 of the Hooland Tunnel, this is true in both option B and C, but in option B there is no verb for the first clause and it's a sentence fragment. A and D are incorrect on account of incorrect usage of and, which.
Thanks for you reply but 1st thing linked is not necessary a verb it can be ed modifier and If linking is a modifier then permitting can't be parallel to this as we have two modifiers ing and ed if we use both ing then one became modifier and other became verb please refer to this example it will help you what i am saying:-
https://gmatclub.com/forum/scientists-h ... -9394.htmlSorry, I'm probably way too late to solve any of the doubts for
rishabhmishra or
MAnkur, but I'll post some thoughts anyway, just in case they help somebody.
In choice (E), "linked" is definitely a verb, not a modifier. Sure, "linked"
can function as a modifier, i.e.: "Manhattan and New Jersey, linked together by various bridges and tunnels, share a common transportation agency."
But in choice (E), what does "linked" modify? The completion? The Holland Tunnel? Neither of those would make any sense. There is no question that "linked" is a verb here, since it's an action performed by the subject "completion." The completion linked the two states.
And that leads to the issues mentioned by
MAnkur (discussed in
this post).
MAnkur wrote:
GMATNinja wrote:
MAnkur wrote:
Hi Experts
Kindly, explain why the option E is wrong? I could find 2 reasons but not sure whether any of them are correct?
Core of E: The completion in 1925 of the Holland Tunnel linked Manhattan with New Jersey's highways, was hailed as the decade's....
1. Will it be right to say that the above core has two verbs (linked and "was hailed"), thereby it is not correct and requires a conjunction such as FANBOYS or a relative pronoun such as "that"?
2. Or the analysis that the second part (was hailed as the decade's....) is sentence fragment due to absence of a subject is right
I rejected C as "linking" is modifying the preceding clause action and the completion cannot link but the tunnel has to as would be suggested by E through usage of "linked".
Kindly, assist.
Quote:
(E) The completion in 1925 of the Holland Tunnel linked Manhattan with New Jersey’s highways, permitting 2,000 cars to pass through each tube every hour, was hailed as the decade’s $48 million engineering masterpiece.
Your first explanation looks good! Stripping out some of the modifiers, (E) reads: "The completion of the Holland Tunnel
linked Manhattan with New Jersey’s highways...
was hailed as the decade’s $48 million engineering masterpiece." This is a nonsensical diaper fire: "The completion linked was hailed." Huh??
Also, (E) implies that the
completion linked Manhattan with New Jersey's highways. But the completion itself didn't
link anything -- the TUNNEL linked Manhattan with New Jersey’s highways.
I hope this helps!
GMATNinja
Thanks for the clarification!
But as you rightly pointed that E seems to say that completion linked, won't B or C when seen in isolation also seems to indicate the same. linking and permitting modifies the action of the preceding clause and applies to the subject....thereby completion seems to link and permit and not Tunnel even in options B and C...so how is C right?
Great point! In (C), "linking" and "permitting" do both modify "the completion in 1925 of the Holland Tunnel" (which, by the way, is not a clause, since it doesn't have a verb). So I may have jumped the gun in adding that point to the explanation of (E). The important thing in choice (E), as you said, is that "the completion linked was hailed" cannot be right. The point about the "completion" doing the "linking" was an afterthought, but, in retrospect, not an accurate one.
Before the tunnel was completed, the two things were not linked. After the completion, they were linked. So there is nothing wrong with suggesting that the "completion" linked the two things.
(Also: I see that I used the expression "nonsensical diaper fire" in an earlier post. That's unfortunate. Apologies for the grisly image.)
Thanks for keeping us on our toes!
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