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The US disco, funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon, who backed Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78
A) The US disco, funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon, who backed Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78
B) The US disco, funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon, who is backing Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78
C) The funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon,US disco, who backed Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78
D) The funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon,US disco, who is backing Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78
E) The funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon,US disco, who is backing Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, died at age 78
A) The US disco, funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon, who backed Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78
B) The US disco, funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon, who is backing Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78
C) The funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon,US disco, who backed Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78
D) The funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon,US disco, who is backing Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, has died at age 78
E) The funk and soul musician Hamilton Bohannon,US disco, who is backing Motown’s greats before starting a respected solo career, died at age 78
02 May 2020, 08:47
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roohitth
Hello, roohitth. In an effort to assist you and the larger community, I will share my thoughts on this question.
Rashed12
Apart from not having a period at the end of the sentence, I can find no fault with this option. The three genres of music, disco, funk, and soul are listed in a clear and logical manner, modifying musician. Meanwhile, the verb tense of the who clause is sensible: backed agrees with before starting. Finally, the present perfect has died is used to indicate an action that has occurred, in this case, quite recently. If the sentence said, died at age 78, we would have no idea, unless we knew about the history of Motown, when Hamilton Bohannon had died. Altogether, there is nothing to argue against here.
Rashed12
This one is close, but is backing indicates that Hamilton Bohannon is in the act of doing something, and it does not make sense to say that someone is backing... before doing anything else in the past.
Rashed12
Unless US disco is meant to serve as a title, as in, John Doe, USMC, its placement after the proper noun is illogical. As mentioned above, disco, funk, and soul are all types of music, so breaking up the list in this manner is jarring, not to mention confusing. Furthermore, US itself is meant to serve as an adjective meaning born (or popularized) in the US. It is fine to say the US musician Hamilton Bohannon; it is not acceptable to say the musician Hamilton Bohannon, US. Get rid of this option.
Rashed12
The worst of both worlds, this answer brings back the muddled verb tense in is backing while retaining the off-putting placement of US disco from the previous answer choice. Unless we are to understand that Hamilton Bohannon was also known as a US disco, this error alone is glaring enough to help us see off this option.
Rashed12
About the only thing I can say about this one that I have not already written above is that the simple past died is not exactly wrong, but again, the present perfect has died makes it clear that the event, the death of Hamilton Bohannon, was a relatively recent development. There is no reason we should opt for the simple past here, since brevity leads to less clarity.
I hope that helps. If anyone has further questions, I would be happy to continue the conversation.
- Andrew
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