To George Steiner, Europe was his home long after his family had bee

Question

To George Steiner, Europe was his home long after his family had been forced to emigrate to the U.S.,  and he returned to the continent as an adult to lecture at several major universities.

A. To George Steiner, Europe was his home long after his family had been forced to emigrate to the U.S.,

B. For George Steiner, long after his family had been forced to emigrate to the U.S., Europe was still his home,

C. George Steiner thought of Europe as his home long after his family to be forced to emigrate to the U.S.,

D. Long after his family had been forced to emigrate to the U.S., George Steiner thought of Europe as his home,

E. Long after his family was being forced to emigrate to the U.S., Europe was home to George Steiner,

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redskull1 · Answer

D..?George Steiner thought and returned....//elism tested....we also need past perfect to maintain timeline....

superbenson · Answer

D seems correct but what's wrong with B then?

To someone,
For someone,

Which is appropriate here?

push12345 · Answer

"Thought of" in D made me to eliminate this choice as I thought it changed intended meaning of sentence. So I choose B

Can someone please explain difference between B and D
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strangelrose · Answer

I think D is the most concise and the word Europe is placed closer to the second part of the sentence which makes it clearer that the continent refers to Europe not US like in choice A and C

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Hero8888 · Answer

Hi,

The devil is in details. Don't you see "still home"? The intended meaning is: Europe became his home long after his family... Now think how can it "became home still after".

redskull1 · Answer

Hi push12345,

The difference between B and D is that while B does not have the noun(George Steiner in this case) DOING both the actions,D has the noun DOING both and hence maintains parallelism.

abhik1502 · Answer

Will someone pls post OE out here and also suggest,

1. Why B is wrong out here ?
2. Doesn't D change the meaning out here. Original sentence didn't mention anywhere that he thought about his home.

Prateek176 · Answer

gmatexam439

Why is D preferred over B?? Didn't really understand the logic behind the OA

rahul16singh28 · Answer

And triggers parallelism here...

George Steiner thought------- and he returned.....

B doesn't maintain any parallelism.

Prateek176 · Answer

How is B not maintaining parallelism?

Prateek176 · Answer

sudarshan22  ,  aragonn  ,  hazelnut

What is wrong with option B??

tejyr · Answer

The 5 options cut down to C,D as per parallelism out of which D seems fine

AdityaHongunti · Answer

chetan2u   GMATNinja   daagh

In option D, why do we need a "he" in the non underlined part of the subject (George) is already at the beginning.

George thought...and returned
. One subject two verbs joined by "and"
Do we need "he" because "thought "is not really an action verb here and does not sit parallel with "returned" ?

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Prateek176 · Answer

AdityaHongunti

Could you please tell me the POE for B?

AdityaHongunti · Answer

Hi there ! 
I understand why you chose B, and you are right on your part.
IMO it should be B .

I had a particular doubt about D so I wanted to clear it out.

I'm expecting an expert to say "not a good question" for this one. Don't loose sweat over this one. Even the OA is debatable

aragonn · Answer

Prateek176

Lets drop the modifier in B and check it ot. Do you like the sentence without modifier. But lets not stop here lets dive further.

Let see the non underline part. if find an 'and' which starts with subject 'He' and then a verb. I think out of these two choices only D saved the parallelism.

DmitryFarber · Answer

B is definitely wrong. As aragonn has stated, we can't say "For George Steiner, Europe was still his home." It's redundant. If Europe was George's home, what is the point of saying "For George Steiner"? There are many better ways of saying that clearly.

It's true that this isn't an official question, but it is a very close copy. We can learn from the real thing, but the problems with B are the same: https://gmatclub.com/forum/to-josephine ... 64758.html

800Dreamer · Answer

Hi, I fail to understand why A is wrong. Can you please explain?

brianshepherd · Answer

Man this one is tricky. It was between D and B for me, but I chose B.

Looking back, I suppose "For George Steiner" is a bit redundant.

To George Steiner, Europe was his home long after his family had bee

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