The judge without elaboration denied the claims that her ruling did no

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The judge without elaboration denied the claims  that her ruling did not conform to the rule of current civil law.

A) The judge without elaboration denied the claims
B) The judge denied the claims without elaboration
C) The judge without elaborating denied the claims
D) The judge denied with a lack of elaboration the claims
E) With a lack of elaboration the judge denied the claims

daboo343 · Answer

A)  Incorrect The judge  without elaboration  denied the claims
  The judge is not without elaboration instead judge without elaborating is correct 
B)  Incorrect  The judge denied the claims  without elaboration 
  Claim is not without elaboration meaning issue 
C)  Correct The judge  without elaborating  denied the claims
  Here the preposition without elaboration ( preposition phrase) is correctly modifying Judge 
D)  Incorrect The judge denied  with a lack of elaboration  the claims
  With a lack of elaboration is adverbial modifier and is modifying denied and hence incorrect 
E) Incorrect   With a lack of elaboration  the judge denied the claims
   The judge is not with a lack of elaboration wrong modification

ayushi15 · Answer

- INCORRECT -seems to modify Judge; ambiguous meaning.

The judge did not elaborate and denied the claims, the only option which concisely reflects the meaning is option C.

ReedArnoldMPREP · Answer

Tricky.

So the movement and altering of the 'without elaboration'/'without elaborating'/'with a lack of elaboration' modifier tells me that's what this question is about--modifiers.

I thought A was okay.

B's meaning didn't work for me, though. Mostly, it seems now that the judge denied claims without elaboration that her ruling did not conform to law... meaning, the judge denied some claims. The judge's ruling did not confirm to law. But the judge did not elaborate, when she denied the claims, that the ruling did not conform to law. (That is, it is not clear that the claim the judge is denying is *that her ruling did not conform to law*, clearly what the sentence is going for).

C is similar to A, the difference being 'without elaborating' and 'without elaboration.' I didn't want to deal with this yet, so I moved to D.

D. "with a lack of elaboration," well that's just silly. How can someone be 'with a lack' of something. 'With' implies the presence of, 'a lack' is the absence of... I don't know, maybe you can have the presence of an absence, but that's just a metaphysical nightmare, so I'm throwing it out.

E. Same as D. Metaphysical nightmare.

So that took me to A and C. I decided "The judge without elaboration" seems to be modifying the judge herself, and "The judge without elaborating denied," now 'without elaborating' described how the judge 'denied' something. The latter makes much more sense.

niclao · Answer

Hi,
i didn't understand the difference between "elaboration" and "elaborating".

ReedArnoldMPREP · Answer

It's a subtle difference. 'Elaborating' is the action, and elaboration is, like... the concept of the action.

Think of it kind of like the difference between 'exercising' and 'exercise.'

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