Curious George was a simian and was a hero of many childrens books an

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Curious  George was a simian and was a hero of many children’s books and was  created by H. A. and Margret Rey.

A. George was a simian and was a hero of many children’s books and was

B. George was simian, a hero of many children’s books, and

C. George was a simian and he was a hero of many children’s books and he was

D. George, the simian hero of many children’s books, was

E. George was a simian and a hero of many children’s books and

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nikitamishra25 · Answer

Curious George was a simian and was a hero of many children’s books and was created by H. A. and Margret Rey.

A. George was a simian and was a hero of many children’s books and was- CG was A and was B and was C- this is not how we make list of parallel elements. Incorrect

B. George was simian, a hero of many children’s books, and- CG was a hero not simian Incorrect

C. George was a simian and he was a hero of many children’s books and he was- Inappropriate structure (Independent clause 1 and Independent clause 2), we need comma before FANBOYS and even if it's a list we can't keep joining using ands.-Incorrect

D. George, the simian hero of many children’s books, was- SUB, adjectival modifier, verb-nothing seems wrong, so keep

E. George was a simian and a hero of many children’s books and- neither a case of appropriate list nor that correct Independent clause structure.

So D

wadhwakaran · Answer

A. George was a simian and was a hero of many children’s books and was  Parallelism Error. 
a simian---Noun, a hero----Noun, was created--- Verb

B. George was simian, a hero of many children’s books, and  Parallelism Error. 
a simian---Noun, a hero----Noun, was created--- Verb

C. George was a simian and he was a hero of many children’s books and he was  Unnecessary wordy, three ICs joined by conjunctions

D. George, the simian hero of many children’s books, was  Seems fine to me 'the simian hero of many children's books is a appositive modifying George. George was created is the main clause.

E. George was a simian and a hero of many children’s books and  Incorrect, parallelism error
George was X and Y and Z
X, Y are noun
Z verb. could have been better if it was 'was Z'.

Jainam24 · Answer

OA: D
Meaning: Extracting the meaning it is implicitly trying to say that Curious George created by H A. and Margret Rey was i)simian ii)hero of many children’s books
Any options that try to group i and ii with creation by HA and Margret though grammatically correct should be rejected on meaning distortion grounds 
A) 
I) Meaning distortion 
II) Grammatically incorrect: When trying to create a list of // items, only the last item in the list is preceded by and 
B)
I) Meaning distortion i) and creation are made a // list instead of i) and ii) 
II) SVA: The part of creation lacks a verb 
C) Same as A 
D) No error 
E) 
I) Same as A 
II) Same as B II)

HarshaBujji · Answer

IMO D,

Parallelism and Non Essential modifier

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