Hans Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having

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Hans  Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his additional developing as a composer  impossible.

A) Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his additional developing as a composer

B) Krasa had only hardly begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his farther professional development

C) Krasa had not hardly begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his developing into a better composer

D) Krasa who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar had not hardly begun to emerge as a celebratory composer when he was taken hold by the grips of Nazism and his further professional development was rendered

E) Krasa, who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his further professional development

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sriharsha63 · Accepted Answer

Hans Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his additional developing as a composer impossible.

A) Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his additional developing as a composer

Firstly, "having written the short fairy tale...." is a lengthy modifier followed by another relative clause - "when the grips of Nazism took..." - both these modifiers are intended to talk about the subject 'Krasa'. But they have been placed far away.
Secondly, "additional developing as a composer" usage is not appropriate. There needs to be a proper noun form to developing. Eliminate A!

B) Krasa had only hardly begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his farther professional development
For the same reasons as mentioned in option A. But happy to see that developing is corrected to development! Still NOT happy with B!

C) Krasa had not hardly begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his developing into a better composer
"had not hardly begun" - this phrase looks to be redundant. Either 'had not begun' or had hardly begun' would suffice but not both. Still, it repeats errors with respect to the placement of modifiers from options A and B. Eliminate C!

D) Krasa who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar had not hardly begun to emerge as a celebratory composer when he was taken hold by the grips of Nazism and his further professional development was rendered
"had not hardly begun" - this phrase looks to be redundant. Either 'had not begun' or had hardly begun' would suffice but not both. According to the original intended meaning, it is the grips of Nazism that is responsible for the obstacle in his further professional development but it is not how it was written in the passive town. It indeed points out correctly that grips of Nazism took hold of him but it doesn't clearly convey that Nazism rendered his further professional development. Eliminate D!

E) Krasa, who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his further professional development
Both the modifiers are aptly placed. There is no redundancy error and the meaning is very clear in saying that Nazism is responsible for both the actions - taking hold and bleak his chances for further professional development. E is the correct answer.

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generis · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC1) THE PROMPT THE OPTIONS • this sentence is grammatical, but the word developing bothers me → on the GMAT and in good writing generally, if a dedicated noun exists, it is preferred to a gerund (a verbING noun) KEEP, but look for a better answer • only hardly is redundant - in this context, both mean "just barely" • The word farther should be further. → farther is used when referring to distance. → further means to a greater extent. Here are two mnemonics that might make the distinction easier to remember: (1) go further with all but distance (2) fArther is for distAnce, whereas fUrther is for everything else ELIMINATE B • there is no such thing as "not hardly." Ever. You cannot use this phrase. → hardly means "just barely" or "almost not." → adding the word not to hardly creates a double negative • as in option A, the word developing is not as good as the dedicated noun form development ELIMINATE C Wow. This sentence is a hot mess. • we need commas around the who-clause because its information is not essential or restrictive → who-clauses without commas are essential, help us to identify which person we are reading about, and are not set off by commas. But we know the man's name. The who-clause is extra information. • as in option C, the phrase not hardly is not a real or correct expression • celebratory and celebrated do not mean the same thing, and celebratory is illogical. → celebratory means festive → celebrated means renowned, well-received, admired Krasa was emerging as a greatly admired composer, not a festive composer. • the sentence is unnecessarily written in passive voice → he was taken hold by and his further development was rendered impossible . ELIMINATE D • I see no errors • the who-clause, which is restrictive and thus requires commas, is set off by commas • the dedicated noun development is used rather than the not-preferred developing • the language is clear and concise Compared to (A), which is still on the table? Option E is better than option A: → development , a dedicated noun, is preferred to developing The correct answer is E. COMMENTS sriharsha63 and Josephat1 , welcome to SC Butler. I like to drill small details into your minds; developing versus development is one such detail. It is one thing to read my statement that "a dedicated noun is preferred to a gerund."

It is another thing entirely to work on questions that contain concrete examples of the detail. These answers range from good to excellent. I see lively prose in which small glimpses of personality are evident—and I like both very much. Low levels of explanation get smiley faces. Good explanations get kudos. Nicely done. sriharsha63 , I am bumping you to Best Community Reply.

AntrikshR · Answer

Hans Krasa (N)
had only begun (V)
to emerge as a celebrated composer (Infinitive)
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Over all IC
, having written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, ---Misplaced Modifier..who wrote the tales? Composer or Hans? Moreover Passive form is quite a putt off here.
when the grips of Nazism took their hold
and (the grips of Nazism) rendered his  additional developing  as a composer impossible. ----------------Again a Long modifier basically trying to modify 'had begun'.
Additional developing? Should have been 'his additional developments'

Overall> IC, Modifier

Overall Meaning: Hans Krasa ,who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer when the grips of Nazism did two things:
1) took their hold
2) rendered his additional developments impossible

A) Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his additional developing as a composer
--Incorrect due to above reasons.
--The usage of had is correct as there are two actions happened in past:
1) First Hans begun to emerge as celebrated composer and then
2) grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered.....

B) Krasa had  only hardly  begun to emerge as a celebrated composer,  having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar , when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his  farther  professional development
--So many errors: incorrect use of adverb hardly, misplaced modifier, by the name of is wordy, farther professional is meaningless.

C) Krasa had  not hardly begun  to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered  his developing into a better  composer
--incorrect use of adverb hardly, misplaced modifier, his developing into... what?

D) Krasa who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar had  not hardly begun  to emerge as a celebratory composer when  he was taken hold by the grips of Nazism and his further professional development was rendered 
--incorrect use of adverb hardly, change of meaning

E) Krasa, who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his further professional development
--Looks correct as it is giving the correct meaning.

Fighter1095 · Answer

A) Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold  and  rendered his additional developing as a composer - Looks cool but look at additional developing - I guess , it should be additional development

developing - verbing modifier - naah - Incorrect

B) Krasa had only hardly begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his farther professional development

had begun to emerge and having written modifies HK but aren't next to modify exactly - Incorrect
 
C) Krasa had not hardly begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his developing into a better composer

again His developing into ??? developing seems to act as modifier but itsn't modifying the right thing - Incorrect

D) Krasa who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar had not hardly begun to emerge as a celebratory composer when he was taken hold by the grips of Nazism  and  his further professional development was rendered

and - parallelism marker - but was taken hold nad his further pd isn't parallel

E) Krasa, who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his further professional development

This looks really cool without any errors - correct

Josephat1 · Answer

E is correct because, 'who' correctly modifies krasa, and 'their' is plural with the grips (sva).

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Varunsawhney8 · Answer

Hans Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his additional developing as a composer impossible.

A) Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer,  having  written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his additional  developing  as a composer

B) Krasa had only hardly begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his  farther  professional development

C) Krasa had not hardly begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his  developing  into a better composer

D) Krasa who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar had not hardly begun to emerge as a celebratory composer when he was taken hold by the grips of Nazism and his further professional development  was rendered

E) Krasa, who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his further professional development

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generis · Answer

The official explanation is  here .

Nevernevergiveup · Answer

there are two things
Hans Krasa was just emerging out as a celebrated composer, (y because he has written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar)
but then Nazism took hold and suspended his further development as a composer impossible.

A) Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his  additional developing  as a composer ......... verb+ing developing is not right here as it does'nt seem to correlate to adjective additional and noun development would be better.

B) Krasa had  only hardly  begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his  farther  professional development ..........  only hardly  is rendundant both are not needed. also  farther  does'nt make sense as it is not some distance far away instead  further  is good.

C) Krasa had  not  hardly begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having written a short fairy tale opera by the name of Brundibar, when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his  developing  into a better composer......... not makes the meaning go opposite and doesn't make sense. developing error repeats from A

D) Krasa who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar had  not  hardly begun to emerge as a celebratory composer when he was taken hold by the grips of Nazism and his further professional development was rendered ....... not error repeats here as in C

E) Krasa, who wrote the short fairy tale opera Brundibar, had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer when the grips of Nazism took their hold and rendered his further professional development........... corrects all the errors and is perfect.

Hans Krasa had only begun to emerge as a celebrated composer, having

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