Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored. "Both anchored" is incorrect. Incorrect/unnecesary placement of "both".
(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both. Incorrect/unnecesary placement of "both".
(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored. Correct. Concise construction and eliminates "both"
(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored Incorrect. "Who created...., yet his forays" now creates a run-on sentence.
(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both. Same error as in D.

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored - the wrong use of "both", because there is no second part of the linguistic structure.
(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - the wrong use of "both", because there is no second part of the linguistic structure.
(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored - clear and concise
(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored - flawed and confusing option, because "yet his forays...." is not agreed with the beginning of the sentence.
(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - the wrong use of "both", because there is no second part of the linguistic structure.

The answer is C

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored - in idiom "both X and Y", both elements, X and Y, must be parallel in form and logic, such that "both Noun and Noun" OR "both Adjective and Adjective", etc. Here, "both anchored and Robert...", but "anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete", a noun phrase, and Robert, a noun, are not parallel at all! Eliminate.

(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - same issue as in A. Both "anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete", a prepositional phrase" and "Robert", a noun, parallel neither in form nor in meaning. Eliminate.

(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored - I do not observe any problems in this choice; it has both correct SV and dismissed "both X and Y" idiom. Best answer choice so far, I'll keep it.

(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored - "both" was deleted so no longer we have an issue with the idiom, but main verb is missing. We have: fragment (subject , no verb) YET and full clause. As we know, both sides of conjunction must be parallel, e.g. SV, conjunction, SV. Here, such parallelism is in issue. Eliminate.

(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - same as A, and B error in idiom "both X and Y". Moreover, this option misses main verb as in D, making the sentence fragment . Eliminate.

We have found mistakes in all four options and none in C, which is our answer.

Original sentence: Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored
This choice has a parallelism error. The phrase "BOTH anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker AND Robert Fuest" is obviously not parallel. The intended phrase would be "... anchored in the slasher-film tropes of BOTH Pete Walker AND Robert Fuest".

(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both
This choice has a parallelism error. The phrase "BOTH in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker AND Robert Fuest" cannot be parallel. The proper phrase would be "... anchored in the slasher-film tropes of BOTH Pete Walker AND Robert Fuest".

(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored
CORRECT ANSWER. The choice is grammatically correct and conveys the intended meaning unambiguously. The noun phrase a catalog of films that was anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest is grammatically correct.

(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored
This choice has an error in Subject-Verb agreement in the first main clause of the sentence. Although the noun phrase a catalog of films anchored in the slasher-film tropes of... is grammatically correct, the main subject Wes Craven does not have a main verb in the first main clause.

(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both
This choice has an error in Subject-Verb agreement in the first main clause of the sentence.. The main subject Wes Craven misses a verb in the first main clause. In addition, the noun phrase "a well-known catalog of films anchored BOTH in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker AND Robert Fuest" cannot be parallel. The intended phrase would be "... anchored in the slasher-film tropes of BOTH Pete Walker AND Robert Fuest".


Answer IS (C)

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

'Both' in the sentence is not following the structure Both 'A' and 'B'.
Both A, yet B is incorrect structure.
creation of well-known catalog of films is compared to his forays into mainstream dramatic films. This follows structure A, yet B.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored --> Error as identified. Incorrect.
(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both --> again both is not following the structure. both in the... 'and something parallel' is missing. Incorrect.
(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored --> catalog was anchored in slasher-film tropes and creation of catalog of films is correctly compared to his forays into mainstream dramatic films. Correct.
(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored --> As per this statement directors anchoring is compared with his forays into mainstream dramatic films. Incorrect.
(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both --> again error as identified. 'both', 'yet' structure is incorrect. Incorrect.

Answer Choice: C

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored --> Incorrect. Idiom error. 'Both X and Y' is the correct idiom. Here, the second component of the idiom of 'Y' is missing.

(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both --> Incorrect. Idiom error. 'Both X and Y' is the correct idiom. Here, the second component of the idiom of 'Y' is missing.

(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored --> Correct. Idiom errors in other sentences are corrected here.

(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored --> Incorrect. Meaning error. 'Who' and 'yet' used in the same clause here are making the meaning of the sentence erroneous and incomplete.

(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both --> Incorrect. Idiom error. 'Both X and Y' is the correct idiom. Here, the second component of the idiom of 'Y' is missing.

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored
-Flims both anchored does not convey correctly meaning of the sentence. Eliminate A

(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both
-" catalog of flims anchored both" again issue with Meaning of the sentence . So Eliminate B

(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored
- CORRECT as it clears conveys meaning of the sentence.[ X created catalog of Flims that was anchored in Y and Z , yet he was appreciated for something else..]

(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored
- " Catalog of films anchored " is incorrect as it does not clearly convey meaning . [X created Catalog of flims and catalog of flims anchored.] so Eliminate D

(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both

- Same as D, catalog of flims anchored both. Issue with meaning Hence Eliminate E

CORRECT ANS C

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored - anchored and Robert Fuest cannot be parallel.
(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - same as A
(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored - correct
(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored - this option has no working verb
(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - same as A, B and E

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.


Meaning:
1. Wes Craven - who was a horror-film director
2. Wes Craven - created a well-known catalog of films
3. These films anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest
4. Yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics

The meaning of this sentence is pretty forward, so presence of 'both' seems questionable, so we will discuss it in 'errors'

Errors:


Correct idiom:

both X and Y

X and Y must be parallel to each other.
When we generally talking about parallel entities, we just care about only first word that followed after the parallelism marker.
if we want to put preposition it should be once outside or twice inside, this is all that you need to remember about 'both X and Y'

In our case 'both' is incorrect and unclear.

POE


Eliminate (A), (B) and (E) because of 'both' error as explained above
(E) also can be eliminated because of missing verb for subject - Horror-film director Wes Craven

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored
(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both
(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored
(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored
(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both

So we are left with (C) and (D)
(D) eliminated 'both' error but introduces another one, there is no verb for subject - Horror-film director Wes Craven

(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored
(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored


C is the answer.

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

This questions tests your knowledge of parallelism and idioms

The correct idiom is Both X & Y , where in X and Y should be parallel

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored- Incorrect. Both anchored & robert fuest? Dosen't make sense. verb ed modifier cannot be parallel to a noun, also this changes the meaning of the sentence
(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both- Incorrect Both in the slasher film tropes & robert fuest? Dosen't maintain the parallelism. It should be slasher in the film tropes of both Peter walker & Robert Fuest.
(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored- Correct. Lets keep this. This correctly conveys the meaning of the sentence & maintains parallelism between Pete walker & robert fuest.
(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored- Incorrect There is no verb in this sentence. the clause starting with "who" is a modifier & anchored is a verb ed modifier & not a verb. This makes the sentence fragment
(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both -Incorrect. There is no verb in this sentence as explained in D and it distorts the parallelism as mentioned in B

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored.
(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both
(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored
(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored
(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both


Solution:
Meaning analysis:
Wes Craven who was a horror film director created a well known catalog of films which was anchored in the slasher film tropes of both Pete Walker and Robert Fuest,yet hi forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among wider audience of film fans and critics.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored. Incorrect.It does not follow the rule of BOTH X and Y.
(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both.Incorrect.It does not follow the rule of BOTH X and Y.
(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored.Correct.

(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored.Incorrect.There is no verb in the sentence.

(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both.Incorrect .Its a verb-ed modifier.No verb in the sentence.Also rule of Idiom Both X and Y is not followed.







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Us of 'both' in the original sentence creates a parallelism error. Logically, 'both' should describe 2 preceding elements. But, 'a well-known catalog of films' is a singular entity (1 catalog) can't be referenced using this dual marker.

The use of 'was' to describe Wes Craven may or may not be correct depending on whether he is still alive/whether he is still a horror film director. But we'll review the answer choices to validate this.

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored - wrong for the use of 'both' as discussed.

(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - Usage of 'both' is wrong. For the 2 elements in the parallel list, viz. 'Pete Walker' and 'Robert Fuest', the phrase 'anchored in the slasher-film tropes of' when preceded by both seems to refer to the 1st element only.

(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored - Correct.

(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored - The first part of the sentence "Horror film director...Robert Fuest" doesn't have a verb. However, the same should be an independent clause (and therefore must have a verb).

(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - Invalid clause error as in option (D) with the additional error of 'both'.

IMO C.

Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest, yet his forays into mainstream dramatic films helped him achieve respect among a wider audience of film fans and critics.

Wes Craven, "who" --> This is a redundant pronoun. It is already established it is referring to Wes and hence is incorrect. Eliminate any option having "who" after Wes. That eliminates options - A, D and E.

This leaves us with options B and C.

Option B: Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both
The error here is "both". It is redundant again as and is already present in the sentence. "in the slasher-film tropes of Pete Walker and Robert Fuest".
Hence, this is incorrect.

Which leaves us with option C-

Option C: Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored.
"was"- > for singular catalog is correct. Hence, this is the correct answer.

Need to check parallelism and S+V agreement

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored
Incorrect. Parallelism is wrong: "both anchored ... and Robert Fuest" (verb ...and noun)

(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both
Incorrect. Wrong parallelism: both in the slasher ... and Robert Fuest

(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored
Correct. Seems that everything is correct here (Also "...catalog of films that was anchored..." is FINE)

(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored
Incorrect. No main verb here.

(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both
Incorrect. The same as D. No main verb here. Wrong parallelism in "both ... and..."

The answer choice is C.

Error Analysis: The placement of 'both' is incorrect. Ideally, it would have been appropriate to place 'both' just prior to 'Pete Walker', so that we would have the construction 'both X and Y'. But the way sentence is framed now, it doesn't allow for it, since non-underlined portion is followed by 'in the slasher-film tropes'. 'both' will be very far from the list 'Pete Walker' and Robert Fuest' .

(A) Wes Craven, who was a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films both anchored -Incorrect, for the reasons stated in the error analysis.
(B) Wes Craven, a horror-film director, created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - Incorrect, placement of 'both' is at issue again as the list 'Pete Walker and Robert Fuest' is not following it immediately
(C) Horror-film director Wes Craven created a well-known catalog of films that was anchored - Correct.
(D) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored - Incorrect, There is no verb for subject 'Wes Craven' in the first part of the sentence, making it a fragment.
(E) Horror-film director Wes Craven, who created a well-known catalog of films anchored both - Incorrect, Just as in A and B, placement of 'both' is incorrect and just as in D there is no verb for the subject making the first part of the sentence a fragment.

And: C

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