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08 Jul 2017, 10:12
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Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of it, author William Styron’s despair turned into a harrowing yet illuminating novel about the disease.
A) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of it, author William Styron’s despair turned into a harrowing yet illuminating novel about the disease.
B) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of the depression, author Williams Styron’s despair was turned into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease.
C) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of it, author William Styron turned his despair into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease.
D) Author William Styron turned his despair into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease, depression, from which he suffered and whose extent frightened him.
E) Author William Styron’s despair was turned into a harrowing yet illuminating account of depression, a disease from which he suffered and was frightened by.
A) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of it, author William Styron’s despair turned into a harrowing yet illuminating novel about the disease.
B) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of the depression, author Williams Styron’s despair was turned into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease.
C) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of it, author William Styron turned his despair into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease.
D) Author William Styron turned his despair into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease, depression, from which he suffered and whose extent frightened him.
E) Author William Styron’s despair was turned into a harrowing yet illuminating account of depression, a disease from which he suffered and was frightened by.
08 Jul 2017, 10:50
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If a sentence reads like this: "Suffering from depression..., X did something" then "X" is the person or thing "suffering from depression". The original sentence says that "William Styron's despair" was suffering from depression, which doesn't make sense - it was Styron himself, not his "despair", who was suffering from depression. Answer C fixes that issue.
Answers D and E use a passive construction ("was turned into") which is bad in this sentence (and in most sentences) because it's not clear who performed the action. Answer C is better, because it's clear that it was Styron himself who turned his despair into a 'harrowing account', while in, say, E, we have no way to know if it was Styron or someone else, say a friend of his, who did that.
Answers D and E use a passive construction ("was turned into") which is bad in this sentence (and in most sentences) because it's not clear who performed the action. Answer C is better, because it's clear that it was Styron himself who turned his despair into a 'harrowing account', while in, say, E, we have no way to know if it was Styron or someone else, say a friend of his, who did that.
08 Jul 2017, 10:56
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A) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of it, author William Styron’s despair turned into a harrowing yet illuminating novel about the disease.
Author's despair cannot turn into something. This doesn't make sense.
B) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of the depression, author Williams Styron’s despair was turned into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease.
Repeats the error in the original sentence
C) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of it, author William Styron turned his despair into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease.
This is the correct choice. Meaning error of sentence corrected
D) Author William Styron turned his despair into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease, depression, from which he suffered and whose extent frightened him.
Passive construction. The correct idiom is from X to Y
E) Author William Styron’s despair was turned into a harrowing yet illuminating account of depression, a disease from which he suffered and was frightened by
This sentence has passive construction
Author's despair cannot turn into something. This doesn't make sense.
B) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of the depression, author Williams Styron’s despair was turned into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease.
Repeats the error in the original sentence
C) Suffering from depression and frightened by the extent of it, author William Styron turned his despair into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease.
This is the correct choice. Meaning error of sentence corrected
D) Author William Styron turned his despair into a harrowing yet illuminating account of the disease, depression, from which he suffered and whose extent frightened him.
Passive construction. The correct idiom is from X to Y
E) Author William Styron’s despair was turned into a harrowing yet illuminating account of depression, a disease from which he suffered and was frightened by
This sentence has passive construction
