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Originally presented in a two-act format with spoken dialogue, Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful, although gaining popularity after numerous revisions.

A) successful, although gaining popularity after numerous revisions

B) successful; although gaining in popularity after numerous revisions

C) successful, although it had gained popularity after numerous revisions

D) successful, although it did gain popularity after numerous revisions

E) successful, although they gained popularity after numerous revisions
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Originally presented in a two-act format with spoken dialogue, Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful, although gaining popularity after numerous revisions.

A) successful, although gaining popularity after numerous revisions

B) successful; although gaining in popularity after numerous revisions

C) successful, although it had gained popularity after numerous revisions

D) successful, although it did gain popularity after numerous revisions

E) successful, although they gained popularity after numerous revisions

A. The sentence following although has to be a dependent clause. Moreover gaining is progressive continous tense, but the original sentence is in simple past tense.
B. This choice repeats all the error of choice A. Moreover gaining in popularity is idiomatically incorrect as well.
C. It had gained popularity is past perfect which is incorrect in the context. The sentence already clearly mentions that it gained popularity after revisions. The past perfect suggests it gained popularity before the revisions. Illogical.
D. Correct
E. Pronoun error. They cannot refer to the opera.
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I settled on D as the right answer.

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A) Originally presented in a two-act format with spoken dialogue, Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful, although gaining popularity after numerous revisions.
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Incorrect because although gaining popularity after numerous revisions is awkward and unclear. I will look for a better choice.

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B) Originally presented in a two-act format with spoken dialogue, Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful; although gaining in popularity after numerous revisions.
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The use of the semi-colon is wrong as although gaining in popularity after numerous revisions is not a main clause; in fact it is not even a clause to begin with. Eliminate B.

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C) Originally presented in a two-act format with spoken dialogue, Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful, although it had gained popularity after numerous revisions.
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The use of the past perfect tense had gained is unacceptable for an action that took place later out of two events. Clearly from the meaning of the sentence, The opera Battered Bride only became popular after numerous revisions to the version of the opera that was not immediately successful. Eliminate C.

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D) Originally presented in a two-act format with spoken dialogue, Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful, although it did gain popularity after numerous revisions.
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This is correct. The use of the past tense did gain is dependent clause is correct. The complete subordinate clause clearly express the intended contrast better than awkward phrase introduced in option A. D is superior to A. Keep D and eliminate A.

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E) Originally presented in a two-act format with spoken dialogue, Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful, although they gained popularity after numerous revisions.
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The plural pronoun they does not agree in number with the singular noun The Battered Bride. Eliminate E.
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D) seems to be the choice I will go for
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IMO D

A) successful, although gaining popularity after numerous revisions
gaining is used as a modifier which does not modify the The Bartered Bride here. Hence it is incorrect


B) successful; although gaining in popularity after numerous revisions
Use of ; to split two Independent clauses. Here phrase is followed by the ; Hence incorrect


C) successful, although it had gained popularity after numerous revisions
Had is used only when there are two events in the past. So tense error. Hence incorrect

D) successful, although it did gain popularity after numerous revisions
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E) successful, although they gained popularity after numerous revisions
Use of they raises the SV agreement error. Hence incorrect
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Question clearly calls for the contrast using word "although". As a matter of fact both the elements thus contrasted must be logically and grammatically parallel.
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A) successful, although gaining popularity after numerous revisions- was not vs. gaining

B) successful; although gaining in popularity after numerous revisions- was not vs. gaining in

C) successful, although it had gained popularity after numerous revisions- was not vs. it had gained

D) successful, although it did gain popularity after numerous revisions- was not vs. it did gain

E) successful, although they gained popularity after numerous revisions- was not vs. they gained
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Originally presented in a two-act format with spoken dialogue, Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful, although gaining popularity after numerous revisions.

A) successful, although gaining popularity after numerous revisions Incorrect.

B) successful; although gaining in popularity after numerous revisions Incorrect. The portion of sentence after semicolon is not an IC

C) successful, although it had gained popularity after numerous revisions Incorrect. Past perfect tense in this case is incorrect as the rest of the sentence is in simple past and it gives an improper sequence of events

D) successful, although it did gain popularity after numerous revisions Correct

E) successful, although they gained popularity after numerous revisions Incorrect. They has no antecedent
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What is wrong in A??

If I flip and write the sentence as
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Although gaining popularity after numerous revisions ,Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful
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What is wrong with the above sentence?? I approached it this way and marked A as answer.

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generis GMATNinja hazelnut VeritasKarishma

What is wrong in A??

If I flip and write the sentence as
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Although gaining popularity after numerous revisions ,Smetana’s opera The Bartered Bride was not immediately successful

What is wrong with the above sentence?? I approached it this way and marked A as answer.

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'Although' is a subordinating conjunction and needs to connect a dependent clause to the independent clause.
"gaining popularity after numerous revisions" is not a clause. It has no subject and verb.

In option (D), "it did gain popularity after numerous revisions" has a subject and a verb.
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