R L Stevenson, whose Treasure Island, a gripping tale of pirates and

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R L Stevenson, whose Treasure Island, a gripping tale of pirates and buried gold,   demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage, inspiring generations of authors who wrote in significantly different times than him  .

A. demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage, inspiring generations of authors who wrote in significantly different times than him.

B. demonstrated conflict between the advanced civilization's virtue and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage and inspired generations of authors who wrote in significantly different times than those in the book.

C. demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage, inspired generations of authors who wrote in significantly different times than his own.

D. demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage, and also inspired generations of authors who wrote in significantly different times than his own.

E. inspiring to generations of authors who wrote in significantly different times than his own, demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage.

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AlfredNguyen · Accepted Answer

A good question in understanding the meaning.
The correct answer choice is C. Let break down the structure:
R L Stevenson,  whose Treasure Island, a gripping tale of pirates and buried gold, demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stag , inspired generations of authors who wrote in significantly times than his own.

R L stevenson is the main subject, inspire is main the verb. 
The underlined part is a clause that modify R L Stevenson.
So demonstrated and inspired is not parallel at all. They are 2 verbs of 2 different clauses, that's why there is no connector 'and' between them.

vineethk929 · Answer

A is the best option...others used inspired instead of inspiring...which modifies the entire clause..

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ryanchow92 · Answer

IMO E
A,B,D quickly eliminated
Between C and E, I think it's the island inspired those authors, not the person himself.

souvonik2k · Answer

IMO C.
 demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage  refers to Treasure island.
 inspired generations of authors who wrote in significantly times than his own  refers to R.L. Stevenson.

hiranmay · Answer

Explanation :  main sentence/clause: RLS inspired generation... Dependent clause: whose Treasure Island demonstrated...

R L Stevenson ,  whose Treasure Island ,  a gripping tale of pirates and buried gold ,   demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage ,  inspiring generations   of authors who wrote in significantly times than him .

A. demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage,  inspiring  generations of authors who wrote in significantly times than him. --> not a sentence

B.  demonstrated conflict between the advanced civilization's virtue and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage   and  inspired generations of authors who wrote in significantly times than those in the book. --> dependent clause before "and"

C.  demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage , inspired generations of authors who wrote in significantly times than his own. -->  correct

D.  demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage ,  and  also inspired generations of authors who wrote in significantly times than his own. --> same as B

E.  inspiring  to generations of authors who wrote in significantly different times than his own, demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage. --> verb of the dependent clause should be "inspired"

thinkTheta · Answer

A. C is not a complete sentence.

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shekhu · Answer

I kinda went with D, A and C have bigger problems than D.

BullRunner · Answer

Only C and D make the correct comparison-significantly times than his own.C is the better choice

nitupathak01 · Answer

D shows correct usage of parallelism -demonstrated ----- and also inspired.

krishnabalu · Answer

Is there any error when posting the words "significantly times" in options A,B,C,D. If not then option E (though ambiguous) would be better for me

Konstantin1983 · Answer

Option E is not an answer since it is a run-on sentence. You need a verb that goes to R.L Stevenson, not to Treasure Island. And this is why A,B,D and E are run-on sentences. Option C is the only correct choice. I doubt that this is 700+ level

Konstantin1983 · Answer

No way. Read again. Treasure Island "demonstarated" right. But who insipred? I think Stevenson. If this is the case then "and also" is a wrong element because you need a verb before. For example, "R.L Stevenson, whose...demostarted...,  motivated  and also inspired" would be correct. Also would be correct option D but without "and also". Remember you always need a subject and a verb in a sentence. Option D has no verb for Stevenson.

ErikLewe · Answer

It makes sense, as R L Stevenson .... inspired.. and whose treasure island.... demonstrated....

However, I do feel like we are missing the word  different  here in option A-D.

TheGraceful · Answer

Yes, I think on the same lines and have chosen E, only to found it incorrect.

avikroy · Answer

what does even what does even "who wrote in significantly times than his own"mean?? shouldnt it be significantly different times than his own................roy

fogarasm · Answer

Roy, completely agreed. None of the options are correct—significantly is an adverb, which can only modify verbs, adjectives, adverbs, or whole sentences. It cannot modify 'times', a noun.

I suspect the word 'different' was omitted, which is quite frustrating because this question is unanswerable if we aren't able to identify the true error. Somehow it seems quite a few were able to get it right, but I'm not sure how!

Maxximus · Answer

You both are absolutely right; the original question has the term "different" in these answer choices.

We are sorry for the trouble you faced and it is frustrating to see such mistakes in our questions committed by the originators of these threads (it's the second I am seeing in last 5 minutes);  Bunuel ,  bb , request you to please correct the original post.

Here is the official video explanation which also includes the correct answer choices--

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-iAqUwQEPs

Thanks
Experts' Global team

Bunuel · Answer

Edited. Please check whether it OK now. Thank you.

gandharvm · Answer

C. demonstrated conflict between the virtue of advanced civilization and the indiscipline of man in his savage stage,  inspired generations of authors who wrote in significantly different times than his own.

Could someone please explain why in answer choice C, "and" is not required before inspired.

To me it looks like a list, RL stevenson demonstrated...,(missing and) inspired

or it could be

RL stevenson demonstrated...., inspiring.....

Where am I going wrong?

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