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16 Sep 2014, 02:00
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As part of a unified scholarly approach, Symeon, an Eastern Orthodox saint often called "The New Theologian", collected texts describing existing traditions and relayed them to his readers in a tone of great devotion and authority and renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice.
A. authority and renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice
B. authority, and renewed some aspects of Asian mystical practice
C. authority along with some aspects of Asian mystical practice he renewed
D. authority, renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice
E. authority that renewed of some aspects of Asian mystical practice
A. authority and renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice
B. authority, and renewed some aspects of Asian mystical practice
C. authority along with some aspects of Asian mystical practice he renewed
D. authority, renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice
E. authority that renewed of some aspects of Asian mystical practice
16 Sep 2014, 02:01
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Official Solution:
As part of a unified scholarly approach, Symeon, an Eastern Orthodox saint often called "The New Theologian", collected texts describing existing traditions and relayed them to his readers in a tone of great devotion and authority and renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice.
A. authority and renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice
B. authority, and renewed some aspects of Asian mystical practice
C. authority along with some aspects of Asian mystical practice he renewed
D. authority, renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice
E. authority that renewed of some aspects of Asian mystical practice
The basic of structure of the sentence is as follows:
Symeon collected … and relayed...
The result of such collecting and relaying was the renewing. Therefore adding a present participle modifier “renewing….” at the end of the sentence correctly depicts this result. Thus the basic structure is further developed as follows:
Symeon collected … and relayed …, renewing...
A. The sentence is grammatically wrong. Two verbs “collected” and “ relayed” are made parallel to a present participle “renewing”.
Using “and” before “renewing” wrongly indicates that “renewing” is a different action and has no bearing on “collecting” and “relaying”.
B. Using “and” before “renewed” wrongly indicates that “renewing” is a different action and has no bearing on “collecting” and “relaying”.
C. Meaning is distorted. This option wrongly indicates that Symeon also collected and relayed some aspects of Asian mystical practice that he renewed.
D. CORRECT. This option makes it clear that Symeon did two actions “collected” and “relayed”. The result of these actions was the “renewing”. This meaning is clearly expressed by the present participle modifier “renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice”.
E. The relative pronoun “that” has no proper antecedent. It wrongly refers to “authority”.
Answer: D
As part of a unified scholarly approach, Symeon, an Eastern Orthodox saint often called "The New Theologian", collected texts describing existing traditions and relayed them to his readers in a tone of great devotion and authority and renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice.
A. authority and renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice
B. authority, and renewed some aspects of Asian mystical practice
C. authority along with some aspects of Asian mystical practice he renewed
D. authority, renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice
E. authority that renewed of some aspects of Asian mystical practice
The basic of structure of the sentence is as follows:
Symeon collected … and relayed...
The result of such collecting and relaying was the renewing. Therefore adding a present participle modifier “renewing….” at the end of the sentence correctly depicts this result. Thus the basic structure is further developed as follows:
Symeon collected … and relayed …, renewing...
A. The sentence is grammatically wrong. Two verbs “collected” and “ relayed” are made parallel to a present participle “renewing”.
Using “and” before “renewing” wrongly indicates that “renewing” is a different action and has no bearing on “collecting” and “relaying”.
B. Using “and” before “renewed” wrongly indicates that “renewing” is a different action and has no bearing on “collecting” and “relaying”.
C. Meaning is distorted. This option wrongly indicates that Symeon also collected and relayed some aspects of Asian mystical practice that he renewed.
D. CORRECT. This option makes it clear that Symeon did two actions “collected” and “relayed”. The result of these actions was the “renewing”. This meaning is clearly expressed by the present participle modifier “renewing some aspects of Asian mystical practice”.
E. The relative pronoun “that” has no proper antecedent. It wrongly refers to “authority”.
Answer: D
21 Mar 2022, 02:13
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The question or/and solution has been revised and edited. Thank you sayantanc2k !!!
