Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will in

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Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shed  light on dialect differences in the fourth-century BCE, and aid research into proto-Pahlavi writing systems.

(A) Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shed

(B) To translate the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, and shed

(C) Having translated the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will, in increasing our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shed

(D) To translate the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments would increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shedding

(E) Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments, increasing our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, would be shedding

winterschool · Answer

Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shed light on dialect differences in the fourth-century BCE, and aid research into proto-Pahlavi writing systems.

(A)  Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shed   Correct

(B)  To translate  the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic,  and  shed  Incorrect

To translate uses wrong; and uses redundant

(C)  Having  translated the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will,  in increasing our understanding of Imperial Aramaic , shed  Incorrect

Having uses wrong; 
modifier problem - in increasing our understanding of Imperial Aramaic changes meaning

(D)  To translate  the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments would increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic,  shedding   Incorrect

To translate uses wrong;
parallelism error - ..............increase .........., shedding ..........

(E) Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments, increasing our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, would be  shedding   Incorrect

parallelism error - ............shedding ......., and aid ..............

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

A

The first distinction between the choices may be the opening phrases, but it may be easier to start with the list in the sentence: "will increase. . . , shed. . . , and aid. . ." As is, the list is parallel, but that isn't the case in all of the choices.

(B) has an extraneous "and" before the word "shed". That's inappropriate before the second item in a three-part list. (C) has other problems ("Having translated" is the wrong verb form, and "by increasing" is more idiomatic than "in increasing") but by moving "increasing" into a modifier, makes "shed. . . , and aid" a two-part list. That in itself isn't incorrect, but a two-part list wouldn't have a comma, as there is before "and aid".

(D) uses "shedding" instead of "shed". If you only read the underlined portion, this may appear correct, but the form of the verb "to shed" must be parallel with "aid" later in the sentence. Finally, (E) has a similar problem, with "would be shedding". Again, this must be parallel with "aid", requiring that the verb in this position be "shed". (A) is the only remaining choice.

Jitu20 · Answer

Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shed light on dialect differences in the fourth-century BCE, and aid research into proto-Pahlavi writing systems.

(A) Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shed -  At first sight, translating looks odd. But the rest of the sentence is perfectly parallel (Something I realized after reading all choices)
 
(B) To translate the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, and shed -  To Translate? To is making the sentence look like a hypothetical one. so Will is incorrect, we need would. B's out.

(C) Having translated the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments will, in increasing our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shed -  Having translated the recently discovered....... ? Awkward and alters meaning. C is out
 
(D) To translate the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments would increase our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, shedding -  Verb-ing modifier modifies the entire preceding clause. And we do not have an ING in the later part of the sentence, hence parallelism is affected.

(E) Translating the recently discovered Levantine tablet fragments, increasing our understanding of Imperial Aramaic, would be shedding -  Present + Would is incorrect. Usage of will is preferred. Apart from that we also have the parallelism issue just like that in D.

Would be happy if experts pointed out something that I missed or got wrong.   generis   GMATNinja

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