Walter Francis White’s second novel, Flight (1926), about a young

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Walter Francis White’s second novel, Flight (1926),  about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, garnering less critical acclaim than that of his first novel,  Fire in the Flint (1924).

A. about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, garnering less critical acclaim than that of his first novel,
B. about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, garnered less critical acclaim than did his first novel,
C. which is about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, and garnered less critical acclaim than his first novel did,
D. which is about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, garnered less critical acclaim as his first novel did,
E. about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, garnered less critical acclaim as that of his first novel,

Vikassingla · Answer

IMO B
Original Sentence is a fragment with No main verb for the subject Novel.
Further to Compare ‘than’ is to be used with ‘less’. other expressions such as less x as Y is unidiomatic.

Hope I am correct. Pls Correct me if you think this is not the right explanation.

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ash124 · Answer

A. about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, garnering less critical acclaim than that of his first novel,
 Verb missing 
B. about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, garnered less critical acclaim than did his first novel,
 Better 
C. which is about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, and garnered less critical acclaim than his first novel did,
No direct verb
 parallelism error 
D. which is about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, garnered less critical acclaim as his first novel did,
 Less ..as is unidiomatic  
E. about a young woman from New Orleans who crosses over the color line, garnered less critical acclaim as that of his first nove
 Less ..as is unidiomatic

Answer B

saarthakkhanna04 · Answer

lets say option D has used less ... than, would that option be correct?

AnirudhaS · Answer

Official Explanation :

We’ll go for ALTERNATIVE because it is not obvious how to correct the sentence.
This sentence has a double meaning. By using the word garnering instead of garnered, it
seems that the woman is the one who received less acclaim and not the second novel,
which is illogical. Answer (C) also creates this double meaning and inaccurate comparison
by using the word and before garnered. Hence (A) and (C) are eliminated. Answers (D) and
(E) use the word as, which changes the meaning of the sentence and suggests that the
first novel also received less acclaim, which would then mean the sentence has an
incomplete comparison. Therefore, answers (D) and (E) are incorrect. Answer (B) is the
only answer option that correctly compares White’s first novel to his second, and states
that the second novel did not receive as much acclaim as the first.

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