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Most celebrated for his prodigious output of theater music, composer Hans Werner Henze sought to escape the perceived intolerant atmosphere of mid-century Germany by emigrating to Italy, where he could more easily bring together his music and leftist political commitments.
A. Most celebrated for his prodigious output of theater music
B. Celebrated for its acceptance of artists and radicals
C. Having been celebrated the most regarding his prodigious output of theater music
D. Accepting and celebrating him as an artist
E. He had been most celebrated regarding his prodigious output of theater music
A. Most celebrated for his prodigious output of theater music
B. Celebrated for its acceptance of artists and radicals
C. Having been celebrated the most regarding his prodigious output of theater music
D. Accepting and celebrating him as an artist
E. He had been most celebrated regarding his prodigious output of theater music
05 Sep 2022, 06:36
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My answer is (A). For this question, test takers do not really need to read and comprehend the sentence to its completion.
(A) Past participle phrase before the comma correctly modifies ”composer Hans Werner Henze”.
(B) "its" cannot refer to a person.
(C) Too wordy and pretentious as if the author took delight in writing the longest sentence. That was how I eliminated it without much thought.
Now, I noticed the time shift in "having been celebrated". Did the composer seek to escape the perceived intolerant atmosphere of mid-century Germany after he had been celebrated most for his prodigious output of theater music?
I am not sure. Without knowing the biography about the composer (and realizing there cannot be consensus on the relative time sequence between "celebration" and "escape"), I would still choose (A) over (C).
(D) it does not make sense to say the composer accepted and celebrated him(self) as an artist.
(E) Comma splice.
(A) Past participle phrase before the comma correctly modifies ”composer Hans Werner Henze”.
(B) "its" cannot refer to a person.
(C) Too wordy and pretentious as if the author took delight in writing the longest sentence. That was how I eliminated it without much thought.
Now, I noticed the time shift in "having been celebrated". Did the composer seek to escape the perceived intolerant atmosphere of mid-century Germany after he had been celebrated most for his prodigious output of theater music?
I am not sure. Without knowing the biography about the composer (and realizing there cannot be consensus on the relative time sequence between "celebration" and "escape"), I would still choose (A) over (C).
(D) it does not make sense to say the composer accepted and celebrated him(self) as an artist.
(E) Comma splice.
05 Sep 2022, 07:41
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A. Most celebrated for his prodigious output of theater music
--> Modifier placed right before the modified noun. No faults
B. Celebrated for its acceptance of artists and radicals
--> "its" has not referent.
C. Having been celebrated the most regarding his prodigious output of theater music
--> Meaning change. Attempts to say that emigrating to Italy was the next logical step for Hans Werner Henze after he was already celebrated in Germany
D. Accepting and celebrating him as an artist
--> This makes the subject of the sentence somebody other than Hans Werner Henze.
E. He had been most celebrated regarding his prodigious output of theater music
--> A complete sentence presented as a modifier before the comma.
--> Modifier placed right before the modified noun. No faults
B. Celebrated for its acceptance of artists and radicals
--> "its" has not referent.
C. Having been celebrated the most regarding his prodigious output of theater music
--> Meaning change. Attempts to say that emigrating to Italy was the next logical step for Hans Werner Henze after he was already celebrated in Germany
D. Accepting and celebrating him as an artist
--> This makes the subject of the sentence somebody other than Hans Werner Henze.
E. He had been most celebrated regarding his prodigious output of theater music
--> A complete sentence presented as a modifier before the comma.
