Those who deny the authorship of "Shakespeare's" plays to

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Those who deny the authorship of "Shakespeare's" plays to the man from Stratford-on-Avon generally contend that he lacked both the classical education  or the experience of life at court that are  reflected throughout the plays themselves

A) or the experience of life at court that are
B) and the experience of life at court that are
C) or the experience of life at court that is
D) as well as the experience of life at court
E) and the experience of life at court one finds to be

SigEpUCI · Answer

B... both are reflected in the plays..

Both .. as well as.. is not idomatic.

venksune · Answer

both X and Y is the right idiom. This leaves us with B and E.

E is awkward... B wins .

lastochka · Answer

nice one. It comes down to either B or D. I belive that D is out b/c you can't assume that both, classical education and the experience were both reflected throughout the plays. B, however, contains 'that are', this way you know that both attributes were reflected thoughout the plays themselves. B it is.

Paul · Answer

Well done guys, OA is indeed B

ywilfred · Answer

(B) is my choice. I think A is wrong to use 'or' as the sentence uses
'both' which need 'and' as a joiner. (E) is out due to the use of 'one'.

crick20002002 · Answer

After 3-2 split, only remaining choices are B and E. E is awkward but B contains a grammatical error. 
" experience  of life at court that  are "

This looks to me as a subject -verb disagreement. It should either be "experiences..." or "...is". Are you sure B is the OA?

Crick

sguptashared · Answer

I can't believe B is the right answer. Of course, battle is only between B and E. Although E is little awkward, grammatically it is correct. However, B has a clear error in "that are". "That" or "Which" generally modifies noun next to it unless "that" is used as a conjunction. In this case, ideally, "that" should modify the noun "court". But IMO the author doesn't intend to modify the court. So it has meaning error, and I think if it modifies "court" then it should also have "S-V" error. Can someone please clarify if I am missing something here?

Those who deny the authorship of "Shakespeare's" plays to

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