The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as

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The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse,” are legendary.

(A) The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse,” are legendary.

(B) The endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, a baseball star known as “The Iron Horse,” is legendary.

(C) Known as “The Iron Horse,” the endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, the baseball star, is legendary.

(D) The reason baseball star Lou Gehrig is known as “The Iron Horse” is because of his legendary endurance and consistency.

(E) Known as “The Iron Horse,” baseball star Lou Gehrig’s endurance and consistency are legendary.

gijoedude · Accepted Answer

A.

A) The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse,” are legendary.
(B) The endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, a baseball star known as “The Iron Horse,” is legendary.

Has "is". Eliminate.

(C) Known as “The Iron Horse,” the endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, the baseball star, is legendary.

Has "is". Eliminate.
(D) The reason baseball star Lou Gehrig is known as “The Iron Horse” is because of his legendary endurance and consistency.

D changes the meaning. The original sentence is just talking about his endurance and consistency while the Iron Horse is a 'side note'. This makes his Iron Horse moniker the main idea of the sentence. Eliminate.

(E) Known as “The Iron Horse,” baseball star Lou Gehrig’s endurance and consistency are legendary.

His endurance and consistency are known as "The Iron Horse"? No. Eliminate.

So A is left.

rolex121 · Answer

(A) The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse”, are legendary.

How come “The Iron Horse” isn't modifying the endurance and consistency? Subject seems to be "The endurance and consistency".
Would the structure be wrong if "The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig" were to be replaced with " baseball star Lou Gehrig's endurance and consistency"?

If we say "The name of the book, derived from ancient greek, is ...", does this mean that the book is derived rather than the name?

AR15J · Answer

known as “The Iron Horse” can not modify The endurance and consistency. It is not logical. known as “The Iron Horse” can modify baseball star Lou Gehrig as it is logical.

However, A of B, C

where C can modify either A or B and, in both cases, modifier logically modifies both preceding nouns which is either just before the modifier or slightly far away from the modifier, this construction will be incorrect. But, if C logically modifies either A or B, but not both, this construction will be correct For instance

I saw the eggs of the snake, lying behind the house

sayantanc2k · Answer

The explanation given by  AR15J  is alright. I would like to further elaborate on the same:
One very important rule in GMAT SC is the modifier touch rule:  A modifier should ideally refer to the noun it touches . This rule is required to be followed in most of the cases. However there are a few exceptions to the touch rule, according to which it is allowed that the modifier does not touch the noun it refers to. One such exception is as follows:
Exception to touch rule: A "mission critical" modifier (often a prepositional phrase) may fall in between a modifier and the noun it refers to. In such case the modifier refers to the noun and the "mission critical" modifier as a whole.

Example 1:
The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse”, are legendary: The modifier  known as “The Iron Horse”  follows modifier touch rule (modifies  Lou Gehrig ).

Example 2:
His style of writing, well-known among his fans, is adopted from another contemporary writer: The modifier  well-known among his fans  follows the exception to the touch rule. A Mission critical modifier (prepositional modifier) "of writing" falls between. The modifier "well-known among his fans" refers to the noun "style" and the modifier "of writing" as a whole.

warriorguy · Answer

is the OA for this question A?

My reasoning:

(A) The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse,” are legendary. -   Endurance  and  Consistency as subject - are   
(B) The endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, a baseball star known as “The Iron Horse,” is legendary. -   Verb mismatch with Subject  
(C) Known as “The Iron Horse,” the endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, the baseball star, is legendary. -   Iron Horse should modify LG.  
(D) The reason baseball star Lou Gehrig is known as “The Iron Horse” is because of his legendary endurance and consistency. -   Change in meaning  .
(E) Known as “The Iron Horse,” baseball star Lou Gehrig’s endurance and consistency are legendary.   Iron Horse should modify LG and not LG's E and C

abhishekdadarwal2009 · Answer

The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse,” are legendary.

(A) The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse,” are legendary.
 The Subject in this sentence is 'the endurance and consistency...' which is plural and correctly matches with the verb are legendary. 
(B) The endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, a baseball star known as “The Iron Horse,” is legendary.
' is' is wrongly referring to plural as 'and' makes the subject plural. 
(C) Known as “The Iron Horse,” the endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, the baseball star, is legendary.
' is' is wrongly referring to plural as 'and' makes the subject plural. 
(D) The reason baseball star Lou Gehrig is known as “The Iron Horse” is because of his legendary endurance and consistency.
 Change in meaning and the intended meaning of the auther is different because Lou is not known as iron horse because of the two qualities but he is already called iron hourse and has the two qualities. 
(E) Known as “The Iron Horse,” baseball star Lou Gehrig’s endurance and consistency are legendary.
 Lou Gehrig's I s being referd to a iron horse which is wrong usage.

09173140521 · Answer

(A) The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse,” are legendary.
(B) The endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, a baseball star known as “The Iron Horse,” islegendary.

endurance is uncountable + consistency is uncountable/countable .....I think both uncountable must get singular verb !!!!
in B answer (is) correct .....sb please elaborate ....
identical question !
https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-enduranc ... 01708.html

tnx

anshul0130 · Answer

ExpertsGlobal5  - Can you pls review my analysis of this question ?

The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse,” are legendary.

(A) The endurance and consistency of baseball star Lou Gehrig, known as “The Iron Horse,” are legendary.
(B) The endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, a baseball star known as “The Iron Horse,” is legendary.
(C) Known as “The Iron Horse,” the endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig, the baseball star, is legendary.
(D) The reason baseball star Lou Gehrig is known as “The Iron Horse” is because of his legendary endurance and consistency.
(E) Known as “The Iron Horse,” baseball star Lou Gehrig’s endurance and consistency are legendary.

Option A is correct.
Option B is wrong as subject and verb don't agree. Subject is endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig and verb is "is"
Option C is wrong for modifier reason. Known as “The Iron Horse,” modifies the endurance and consistency of Lou Gehrig
Option D changes the meaning of the original sentence. As per option D, LG is known as the iron horse because of his legendary endurance and consistency. also, GMAT don't prefer because of.
Option E is wrong for modifier reason. Known as “The Iron Horse,” modifies endurance and consistency

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  PanpaliaAnshul ,

We hope this finds you well.

Having gone through your explanation, we believe we can say that your analysis is largely correct.

Kudos.

However, we would also like to point out that Option C also has the same subject-verb disagreement as Option B.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
Experts' Global Team

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