The first two albums released by the Isley Brothers, an

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The first two albums released by the Isley Brothers, an African-American musical group, pictured white people on their covers , because record executives assumed that white consumers would not purchase albums with pictures of African-American artists on them.

The first two albums released by the Isley Brothers, an African-American musical group, pictured white people on their covers

The Isley Brothers’ first two albums, an African-American musical group, pictured white people on their covers

An African-American musical group, the first two albums released by the Isley Brothers pictured white people on their covers

The first two albums released by the Isley Brothers, an African-American musical group who pictured white people on their covers

The first two albums released by African-American musical group the Isley Brothers were picturing white people on their covers

the first option seems that two albums are afro-american musical group.
explanations are welcome
thanks

subhashghosh · Answer

The first two albums  is the subject here, and thus A is the correct choice.

shadabkhaniet · Answer

My question is on the following line
"The first two albums released by the Isley Brothers,  an African-American musical group "

"an African-American musical group" is referring to the albums or Isley brothers?

thanks

kraizada84 · Answer

The first two albums released by the Isley Brothers, an African-American musical group, pictured white people on their covers , because record executives assumed that white consumers would not purchase albums with pictures of African-American artists on them.

The first two albums released by the Isley Brothers, an African-American musical group, pictured white people on their covers 
--> correct placement of modifier.

The Isley Brothers’  first two albums, an African-American musical group,  pictured white people on their covers 
--> modifier placed incorrectly; modifies two albums.

An African-American musical group, the first two albums released by the Isley Brothers pictured white people on their covers
--> nonsense sentence; meaningless

The first two albums released by the Isley Brothers, an African-American  musical group who pictured  white people on their covers 
--> okay it was the albums that pictured not the grp itself

The first two albums released by African-American musical group the Isley Brothers were picturing white people on their covers
--> wrong tense+wrong construction "comma" is required for some sense to make out of the sentence.

Hence A

HTH

msvel2304 · Answer

is the comma between covers and because right in option A ?

HarveyS · Answer

Taking out this old topic....

I am not clear why option A is correct.... What is pictured referring to in Option A...

Experts , Pls adv....

sivasanjeev · Answer

The first two albums released by the Isley Brothers, an African-American musical group, pictured white people on their covers , because record executives assumed that white consumers would not purchase albums with pictures of African-American artists on them.

The first two albums  released   by the Isley Brothers ,  an African-American musical group , pictured white people on their covers
Ignoring modifiers ( -ed participle modifier ),  prepositional phrases  and  parenthetical elements , we see that the SV pair is 'first two albums' and 'pictured'.
This construction looks fine. Let's see what's wrong with others.

The  Isley Brothers’  first two albums,  an African-American musical group , pictured white people on their covers
The  parenthetical element  cannot refer to the  possessive  .  This option is wrong. Eliminate

An African-American musical group ,  the first two albums  released by the Isley Brothers pictured white people on their covers
The  absolute phrase  wrongly refers to the  subject .  Eliminate

The  first two albums  released by the Isley Brothers, an African-American musical group who pictured white people on  their  covers
 their  has pronoun ambiguity. The bigger mistake - there is no verb corresponding to the  subject .  Eliminate

The first two albums released by African-American musical group the Isley Brothers were picturing white people on their covers
No proper punctuation - run on sentence. Usage of 'continuous tense' is wrong.  Eliminate .

AKG1593 · Answer

Option A-correct.

Option B-Incorrectly suggests that the first two albums were an African American musical group.

Option C-'An African-American musical group' should modify the Isley Brothers.

Option D-Incorrectly suggests that the Isley Brothers always pictured white people on their covers.This changes the meaning of the sentence.

Option E-Incorrectly uses the past continuous tense for action that has already taken place.Simple past will suffice.

Aves · Answer

In choice B, why the noun modifier can't refer back to the Isley brothers? Why does it refer only to two albums?

daagh · Answer

Where is the phrase Isley brothers? You have only a possessive Isley brothers’, which is not a noun but an adjective in this case; The real noun is the albums.

Aves · Answer

Oh i made a silly mistake.

Thank you!

thangvietname · Answer

we need a clear reason for using the continuous tense. at a point of time in the past, if the action is contiuning then we use continous tense. 
tense is hard point in english.

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