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The media researcher Jonathan Gray advocates a comprehensive methodological approach, trying to combine audience research, industry studies, and textual analysis, similar to the methodology Julie D'Acci used in her book Defining Women: Television and the Case of Cagney & Lacey.

A. trying to combine
B. which does combine
C. one that combines
D. ones that combine
E. one that has a combination of
IMHO (C) for the highlighted errors in other options....


Can you please elaborate why B is wrong?
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VeritasKarishma I wanted to check whether A is wrong for the below reason.

Given we have verb-ing modifier 'trying' preceded by a comma and in this usage, it either presents additional information of the result of the action of the previous clause. A seems to signify that it was Jonathan advocating an approach which was trying to combine...

is my understanding of the issue correct?
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VeritasKarishma I wanted to check whether A is wrong for the below reason.

Given we have verb-ing modifier 'trying' preceded by a comma and in this usage, it either presents additional information of the result of the action of the previous clause. A seems to signify that it was Jonathan advocating an approach which was trying to combine...

is my understanding of the issue correct?

Yes, you re right. What comes after comma needs to modify "approach".
"trying to combine ..." would modify the advocating done by Jonathan (which becomes meaningless).
We need an appositive right next to "approach".
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