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The embedded narrative structure of The Thousand and One Arabian Nights, in which many of the individual tales are stories within stories, nested as many as four layers deep, make mythologists suspect that they were not all written by the same author.
A) make mythologists suspect that they were not all written
B) make mythologists have suspicions that it was all not written
C) make mythologists have suspicions that they were not all written
D) makes mythologists suspect that it was not all written
E) makes mythologists suspect that they were all not written
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
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QUICK POE
• SPLIT #1: SUBJECT VERB AGREEMENT
The subject of this sentence is structure.
(That subject may be easier to think about if we also use the adjectives so we can think to ourselves that the subject is embedded narrative structure.).
Structure is singular. We need a singular verb.
The plural verb make in options A, B, and C does not match the singular subject. Fatal.
The phrasing have suspicions in options B and C is inferior to suspect in other options:
→ have suspicions is flabbier, longer, and less dynamic than the verb suspect.
Eliminate A, B, and C
• SPLIT #2: PRONOUN AGREEMENT
1) In English writing, the title of a work will, at the least, contain initial capital letters on important words. (What I just described is the way that you recognize a title.)
From the cluster of capitalized words in the context of this sentence about stories, you should recognize those words as both a proper noun and a title.
2) This title is the name of one book; titles of singular entities (books, magazines, newspapers, etc.) are singular, so the pronoun it is appropriate.
(Don't let the plural word "Nights" in the title throw you.)
Option D correctly uses suspect that it was not all written
Option E incorrectly uses suspect that they were all not written
If you are still not sure, look for another difference between the options.
This distinction is hard.
Option D uses not all written.
Option E uses all not written.
Option D is better because 1) it follows standard usage, and 2) it is more logical. (See below for an explanation about #2).
Eliminate option E.
The answer is D.
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anuhyadixit , welcome to SC Butler.
Everyone, below these comments you will find the official Magoosh explanation.
This question is hard.
On the one hand, you must recognize that the subject is the singular structure.
An "embedded narrative structure" is sort of like a bunch of boxes inside boxes.
That structure is then described using nonessential modifiers: in which many of the individual tales are stories within stories, nested as many as four layers deep
On the other hand, you must also recognize that the book (identified by its name) is the thing that scholars suspect was not written by one person alone, and that the title corresponds with singular it.
Do not worry if you missed this question.
It is hard.
And now you know that the proper name or title of a book (or anything similar) is a singular thing that requires the pronoun it.
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MAGOOSH OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Split #1: subject/verb agreement. This is one of the GMAT's favorite scenarios --- a singular noun, then a modifier packed with all kinds of plural things, then the verb. If you are relying on your ear, all the plurals in the modifying clauses may throw your ear off. The proper subject, though, is "the embedded narrative", a singular subject. Therefore, the main verb must be singular. The plural verb "make" is incorrect --- this is what choices A & (B) & (C) have. We need the singular verb "makes", which only (D) and (E) have.
Split #2: concision and directness. The structure "make mythologist suspect" is direct and concise. The structure "make mythologists have suspicions" is needlessly wordy and indirect. Choices (B) & (C) have this, so there's no way they could be correct.
Split #3: "it was" vs. "they were". What was "written"? The work, the Thousand and One Arabian Nights. This has a plural in its title, but it's a singular work, a single thing, so it can only be the antecedent of the singular pronoun "it", not the plural pronoun "they". Choices (A) & (C) & (E) make this mistake.
Split #4: a very subtle logical point --- "all not written" vs. "not all written" --- what is going on here? Where should the word "all" be?
Suppose we say: this work was "not all written by the same author" ---- the words "not all" are a synonym for "some", maybe even "most" --- we could say "some was written by the same author" or "most was written by the same author" --- those sound roughly equivalent to what the sentence is trying to communicate. We just want to emphasize: it is not the case that the whole thing was written exclusively by one person. It could be that one person wrote a large chunk of it, but no one person wrote the whole thing. That is what this order implies, and that's very much what the sentence is trying to say. Choices (A) & (C) & (D) have this correct.
Suppose we say: this work was "all not written by the same author." To say "this work all ____ ____ ____" is to say that we are talking about the work in its entirely, every last detail, down to every last word. That's how completely what we are going to say applies to the work. Now to continue: the whole work, every last word, "was not written by the same person." This is equivalent to saying "every last word was written by a different person." That's absolutely crazy. That means: if the book has, say, a million words total, then you would need a million different authors, each contributing just one word! Pure lunacy! This is definitely not what the sentence is trying to say. The structure "all not written" makes absolutely no sense in this context. Therefore, choices (B) & (E) are incorrect.
For all these reasons, choice (D) is the only possible answer.
05 Mar 2022, 23:09
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A) make mythologists suspect that they were not all written
B) make mythologists have suspicions that it was all not written
C) make mythologists have suspicions that they were not all written
D) makes mythologists suspect that it was not all written
E) makes mythologists suspect that they were all not written
Options A,B,C are ruled out since 'narrative structure' is singular - so should be "makes". Down to D and E options- correct answer should be E since talking about tales in non underlined part.
B) make mythologists have suspicions that it was all not written
C) make mythologists have suspicions that they were not all written
D) makes mythologists suspect that it was not all written
E) makes mythologists suspect that they were all not written
Options A,B,C are ruled out since 'narrative structure' is singular - so should be "makes". Down to D and E options- correct answer should be E since talking about tales in non underlined part.
