American oil tycoon Armand Hammer paid $5,126,000 at an auction for a

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American oil tycoon Armand Hammer paid $5,126,000 at an auction for a notebook  contains 72 loose pages that featured  Leonardo da Vinci’s notes and detailed drawings, all related to the common theme of water and its movement.

A. contains 72 loose pages that featured

B. that contained 72 loose pages to feature

C. containing 72 loose pages and featuring

D. that contains 72 loose pages, featuring

E. containing 72 loose pages featuring

NirupaD · Answer

Answer E, meaning is that 
pages Featuring something, 
not notebook. So AND and TO is incorrect, D genrates cause effect of auction and feature, which is incorrect.

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akritigpi46 · Answer

please explain this question.

raianshul · Answer

American oil tycoon Armand Hammer paid $5,126,000 at an auction for a notebook  contains 72 loose pages that featured  Leonardo da Vinci’s notes and detailed drawings, all related to the common theme of water and its movement.

A. contains 72 loose pages that featured
Armand Hammer(subject) paid(verb)....bla bla bla...for(start of the preposition phrase) a notebook...contains (verb), now the verb is the problem here. So incorrect
B. that contained 72 loose pages to feature
Book cannot have intent, so incorrect
C. containing 72 loose pages and featuring
Book cannot feature something, so incorrect
D. that contains 72 loose pages, featuring
comma+ing modify the preceding clause where the subject is the doer/associate with the doing, so Armand Hammer is not featuring, so incorrect
E. containing 72 loose pages featuring
At first glance, I was not too fond of this choice but grammatically it is the correct choice as a participle phrase modifying the correct noun.

I'm also a GMAT aspirant, so please correct me if my approach is wrong. Thank you so much for your attention and participation.

Riyachouhan · Answer

Okay, first understand the meaning of the sentence, the sentence says American Tycoon paid some money for a notebook CONTAINS 72 pages that featured some notes... now here contains is absolutely incorrect as it is a verb for the noun notebook, which is in object place, hence contains is not the verb for notebook..so in order to say that this book contain some pages , we need noun modifier that can be either THAT CONTAINS ( NOT CONTAINED ), OR CONTAINING . Now some of you might think that containing is not making sense as when we complete the sentence it would read like THE BOOK IS CONTAINING, now then yo feel like the sen is in the past so how it could be containing in the present?, so to answer this question, you must understand that CONTAIN AND FEATURE is a factual information that is true in the current time as well hence CONTAINING can be correct modifier for the book ....now as we move further in the sen, it says THESE 72 PAGES fueature LDV'S notes, since this meaning is absolutely logical and since this is the original sentence so I have to keep the meaning intact, so this is the same as what option E is saying ...(e) The book CONTAINING 72 pages FEATURING ldv's notes, hence option E is the correct answer .. (D) here featuring is an action modifier that is modifiying the action CONTAINS, this modification is abolutely correct as it shows me the result of containing, BUT THIS MODIFICATION CHANGES THE MEANING OF SENTENCE hence D is incorrect .. ( C) this choice is also completely eror free, here containing and featuring both are parallel and hence modifying the same entity that is NOTEBOOK, by doing so this changes the meaning as it now says that the book features the notes ( true in general), but in the meaning we have been said that the pages feature notes and hence we have to keep the meaning intact, hence optiob C is chnaging the meaning hence incorrect

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