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Displayed one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1876, residents of San Francisco witnessed electric light for the first time.
(A) Displayed one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1876, residents of San Francisco witnessed electric light for the first time.
(B) Displayed on July 4, 1876, one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, electric light was witnessed by residents of San Francisco for the first time.
(C) Displayed on July 4, 1876, one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, residents of San Francisco witnessed electric light for the first time.
(D) Witnessing electric light for the first time, the display for residents of San Francisco on July 4, 1876 one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
(E) Witnessing electric light for the first time, one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, on July 4, 1876, the display for residents of San Francisco took place.
(A) Displayed one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1876, residents of San Francisco witnessed electric light for the first time.
(B) Displayed on July 4, 1876, one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, electric light was witnessed by residents of San Francisco for the first time.
(C) Displayed on July 4, 1876, one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, residents of San Francisco witnessed electric light for the first time.
(D) Witnessing electric light for the first time, the display for residents of San Francisco on July 4, 1876 one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
(E) Witnessing electric light for the first time, one hundred years to the day after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, on July 4, 1876, the display for residents of San Francisco took place.
19 Apr 2021, 04:15
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
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You should recognize this as a modifier problem. What is "Displayed. . . ?" It turns out that electric light is displayed, but the words "electric light" don't show up until long after the comma. (A), then, is wrong.
(D) and (E) have a different opening modifier, but they are also wrong. Who is "witnessing electric light for the first time?" Presumably the residents of San Francisco, yet those words don't show up right after the comma.
(B) and (C) are very similar until the final phrase. Read around the phrase "one hundred years. . . Independence," and determine what should follow the comma. "Displayed. . ." should modify "electric light," meaning that (B) is correct. Note that (B) is passive voice and (C) is not; answers with passive voice are often, but not always, wrong. If every other answer has more serious grammatical problems, a choice containing passive voice can be correct.
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15 Apr 2021, 04:21
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Without getting into too much of complications or analysis, let us look for the errors and keep it simple.
Now, the first three options start with 'Displayed.....' what was displayed?: the electric lights.
So, the clause after the modifier should begin with what is modified: the electric lights.
Only B is correct.
The next two options begin with 'Witnessing electric light for the first time', and it should logically point to the residents.
However, both these options erroneously modify the display
B
