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Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhyt [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 25 Oct 2019, 03:56
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Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.


(A) Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.

(B) Wynton and Branford Marsalis are brothers, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, and are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.

(C) The Marsalis brothers, Wynton and Branford, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, which is a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival.

(D) Fusing the rhythms of contemporary jazz, which are complex, with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, Wynton and Branford Marsalis are a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival.

(E) A fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival are brothers Wynton and Branford Marsalis, who fuse the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown.
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Originally posted by ravi67741 on 17 Apr 2011, 00:18.
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Re: Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhyt [#permalink] New post   17 Apr 2011, 02:54
A is alright but the location of comma is wrong. Comma should follow brothers
Wynton and Branford Marsalis brothers, who ---> correct

The relative clause introduced by "who" is correct.

B - "and are" is wrong
C - which is wrong
D - headless modifier. "which" is wrong
E - wrong present tense "fuse"

ravi67741 wrote:
Q. Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(A) Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(B) Wynton and Branford Marsalis are brothers, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, and are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(C) The Marsalis brothers, Wynton and Branford, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, which is a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(D) Fusing the rhythms of contemporary jazz, which are complex, with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, Wynton and Branford Marsalis are a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(E) A fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival are brothers Wynton and Branford Marsalis, who fuse the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown.
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Re: Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhyt [#permalink] New post   17 Apr 2011, 03:13
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The gist of text is that the two people are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival. That they are brothers and that they fused bla and bla are all incidentals, which are not to be equated with the focus of being the fitting symbols.

Choice A by putting the long modifiers in a neat parenthesis, brings out the focus succinctly and hence is the correct answer.

B faults on this norm and equates all the functions by matching with working verbs – are brothers, have fused , and are fitting symbols.

C. ‘their hometown, which is a fitting’ – improper modification

D. Two people being jointly called a fitting symbol can be aberrant. Secondly D drops calling them brothers. Isn’t that a significant distortion?

E. The singular subject ‘A fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival’ needs a singular verb ‘is’. Secondly, the use of simple present ‘fuse’ to describe their action seems to imply that fusing is their main job. Very weird.
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Re: Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhyt [#permalink] New post   17 Apr 2011, 05:49
A is the correct choice..

(A) Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival. Coma doesn't matter much as far as the modifier is correctly modifying the nouns.
(B) Wynton and Branford Marsalis are brothers, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, and are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival. Faulty structure "are...have" without any subject pronoun is wrong
(C) The Marsalis brothers, Wynton and Branford, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, which is a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival. Which is wrongly used & subject pronoun is still missing
(D) Fusing the rhythms of contemporary jazz, which are complex, with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, Wynton and Branford Marsalis are a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival. Again wrong use of which..
(E) A fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival are brothers Wynton and Branford Marsalis, who fuse the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown. "Fitting symbol .... are" wrong subject verb agreement.
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Re: Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhyt [#permalink] New post   17 Apr 2011, 06:58
ravi67741 wrote:
Q. Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(A) Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(B) Wynton and Branford Marsalis are brothers, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, and are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(C) The Marsalis brothers, Wynton and Branford, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, which is a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(D) Fusing the rhythms of contemporary jazz, which are complex, with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, Wynton and Branford Marsalis are a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival.
(E) A fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival are brothers Wynton and Branford Marsalis, who fuse the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown.


I noticed that SC is a strain to the eye. Parsing the parts of a sentence is taking so much time. Ugh!

(A) Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.CORRECT

(B) Wynton and Branford Marsalis are brothers, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, and are fitting symbols of the New Orleans jazz revival.
are brothers, have fused the complex is not correctly connected or punctuated

(C) The Marsalis brothers, Wynton and Branford, have fused the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, which is a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival.
which is a fitting symbol is incorrectly modifying hometown

(D) Fusing the rhythms of contemporary jazz, which are complex, with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown, Wynton and Branford Marsalis are a fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival.
ARE is plural and FITTING SYMBOL is singular

(E) A fitting symbol of the New Orleans jazz revival are brothers Wynton and Branford Marsalis, who fuse the complex rhythms of contemporary jazz with the rollicking musical legacy of their hometown.
Same reason as D
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Re: Wynton and Branford Marsalis, brothers who have fused the complex rhyt [#permalink] New post   27 Jun 2021, 08:23
Dear Experts,

Is the verb used in the answer option "who have fused" correct. Should it not be "fused/fuse" instead?
Why are we using Present Perfect tense, when a Past/Present tense will work fine?
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