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A mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer’s Cane has been called one of the three best novels ever written by Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.

A. Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
B. Black Americans—including Native Son by Richard Wright and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
C. a Black American—including Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
D. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
E. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

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E.

tense in first portion of the sentence and parallelism in second portion.
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A mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer’s Cane has been called one of the three best novels ever written by Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.

A. Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
B. Black Americans—including Native Son by Richard Wright and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
C. a Black American—including Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
D. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
E. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

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In short, llism for Jean Toomer’s Cane are Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man.
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I thought E as well, OA is not E.
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its B? others wouldnt work because of comparison
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A mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer’s Cane has been called one of the three best novels ever written by Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.

A. Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
B. Black Americans—including Native Son by Richard Wright and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
C. a Black American—including Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
D. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
E. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

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If you say D, where it is mentioned about Black Americans?
What are others meant by? Richard Wright and Ralph Ellison" or "Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man".
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A mixture of poems and short fiction, Jean Toomer’s Cane has been called one of the three best novels ever written by Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man.

A. Black Americans—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
B. Black Americans—including Native Son by Richard Wright and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
C. a Black American—including Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
D. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright, author of Native Son, and Ralph Ellison, author of Invisible Man
E. a Black American—the others being Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man

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B

"including" modifies "novels" not "americans"
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Confused between B and E.

I don't understand the role of "including" in B: "including" implies that the information in first sentence is incomplete and is being supplemented by "including". But I don't agree that information in B is incomplete.

In E, "Others being.." does a good job of listing down supplemental information. However, I am not sure about the "--" punctuation. Why is emphasis needed for supplemental information?

However, "written by Black Americans.." sounds better than "a Black American", so I think B is a better choice than E.
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Choice A,C and D are gone because of comparing novels with people.
Between B and E, E is more parallel - Richard Wright’s Native Son and Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man, and Jean Toomer’s Cane
IMO it is ok to use “a Black American” to represent the group of Black Americans; consider this: A human is a rational animal – we don’t have to say 'humans are rational animals'
This is one of the few befitting cases in which ‘being’ is rightly used
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Its B,
1. Novels written by Americans. Plural. Hence C D and E are out.
2. Parallelism is with novels. So Toomer’s ‘Cane’ is compared with ‘Native son’ and ‘Invisible Man’
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is "including" correct in B?
"one of the three best novels" and "the others" seem parallel



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