Dante Rossetti and his colleagues, in calling their group the

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Dante Rossetti and his colleagues, in calling their group the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, sought a return to the classical ideals of painting that held sway before  Raffaello, to what governed the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli .

A) Raffaello, to what governed the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli
B) Raffaello, artistic principles that would govern the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli
C) Raffaello who governed the work of 15th century artists like Sandro Botticelli
D) Raffaello by which the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli was governed
E) Raffaello that had governed the work of 15th century artists like Sandro Botticelli

daagh · Accepted Answer

A) Raffaello, to what governed the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli ---  Correct choice 
 
B) Raffaello, artistic principles that would govern the work of 15th century artists such as ---;  'would govern’ is a wrong tense of the verb for a past event; simply 'governed' is right 2. “Artistic principles” is an unnecessary intrusion that changes the meaning. 
 
C) Raffaello who governed the work of 15th century artists like Sandro Botticelli --  Raffaello did not govern anything as per the text --like is also wrong

D) Raffaello by which the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli was governed--- 'B y which' refers to the classical ideas and should be separated by a comma before ‘ by which’. Otherwise ‘by which’ will tend to modify Raffaello, which is meaningless

E) Raffaello that had governed the work of 15th century artists like Sandro Botticelli –  Raffaello that governed is wrong reference and like is also incorrect.

ENGRTOMBA2018 · Answer

Dante Rossetti and his colleagues, in calling their group the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, sought a return to the classical ideals of painting that held sway before  Raffaello, to what governed the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli .

This sentence has no errors. Elements " to the classical ideals.." and "to what governed..." are parallel.

A) Raffaello, to what governed the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli
 Correct.

B) Raffaello,  artistic principles that would govern the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli 
 Incorrect. The phrase "artistic principles.." is not parallel to " to the classical ideals.."

C) Raffaello who governed the work of 15th century artists  like  Sandro Botticelli
 Incorrect. Parallelism error and incorrect use of "like".

D) Raffaello by which the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli was governed
 Incorrect. Parallelism error

E) Raffaello that had governed the work of 15th century artists like Sandro Botticelli
 Incorrect. Parallelism error. "that had governed.." creates illogical meaning

PathFinder007 · Answer

hi daagh,

could you please provide your comments for option A?

generally in parallelism we make a list and then we use a connector (AND) to connect all the elements of the list. how here we are connecting the elements.

please clarify

Thanks

daagh · Answer

Pathfinder
HI
Have I used anywhere in my comment the word –parallel-?
The point is that I went through some simple principles such as the use of 'like' for examples, usage of the comma for modifiers plus the meaning route. 
I didn’t look at parallelism at all because, I got my answer otherwise and was happy not to delve more.

For the meaning route, these factors should be kept in view.

There were two styles of painting that this topic is concerned about. One was the earlier classical style prevalent before the Raffaello style, a post-15th-century style. Sandro belonged to the earlier classical style. Obviously, authoring a non-classical style, Raffaello could not have influenced artists who existed before him. This much minimum one can infer from the text. In the light of this thoughts, one can see how all the choices sans A have fatal meaning errors.

leanhdung · Answer

Dante Rossetti and his colleagues, in calling their group the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, sought a return  to the classical ideals  of painting that held sway before  Raffaello, to what governed the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli .

A) Raffaello,  to what governed  the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli
B) Raffaello, artistic principles that  would  govern the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli
C) Raffaello  who governed  the work of 15th century artists  like  Sandro Botticelli
D) Raffaello  by which  the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli  was governed 
E) Raffaello  that had governed  the work of 15th century artists  like  Sandro Botticelli

aaba · Answer

there is a similar question that has the answer like A. "to what" refers to "to ideals"
B has the issue with the tense "would"

abhishekmayank · Answer

I am not comfortable as to why the helping verb 'would' is being marked wrong in option B :

B) Raffaello, artistic principles that would govern the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli

I think that the phrase "artistic principles that would govern the work of 15th century artists such as Sandro Botticelli" is an Absolute Phrase and 'would'
 seems to be correct as future is being presented in the statement of past. What is wrong over here?

MentorTutoring ,  AjiteshArun

AndrewN · Answer

Hello,  abhishekmayank . I think the real issue with the sentence at hand is that the timeline is not entirely clear by way of the grammar, specifically the verb conjugations into the simple past tense. I would expect the past perfect   had  held  and   had  governed  to be our parallel markers instead, since  sought  is already conjugated in the simple past. As written, the question relies too heavily on the knowledge of the test-taker. Since Rossetti, Raffaello, and Botticelli are all Italian names, someone could misinterpret the sentence as saying that all three figures existed contemporaneously at a point in the past around the 15th century, the one clear timestamp the sentence provides. If that were the case, then  artistic principles  could be seen as a synonymous term for  classical ideals of painting , and the use of  would  within the larger phrase as a projection into the future of that time would be justifiable. So in short, I agree with you that the sentence is problematic. Provided you know when the individuals in the sentence lived, you should choose (A); otherwise, a case can be made for (B), even though it would require of the test-taker an assumption of the notion that  artistic principles  and  classical ideals of painting  were one and the same.

I hope that helps. Thank you for tagging me.

- Andrew

deep31993 · Answer

I am concerned with Maghoosh questions. They are pretty bad in explanation. Answer choice A doesnt seem right to me at all. Thats why I selected B.

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