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Kilimanjaro Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

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01b00 Mark Twain sprinkled his many works with devastating satire, some of ........................aimed at specific persons and places.02b02br
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00The answer is "B" , why not "E"?, I can't put it in a logical explanation. Thanks for your comments.0-
  

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0 B sounds very awkward to me. 0-

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0 B sounds very awkward to me. I agree with you, if I was speaking it, I would go with E.0-
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0Hi,02br
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00Yes, I wouldn't say 'which' is wrong, but it does sound rather awkward.02br
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00Best wishes, Clive0-
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0I would choose E too. 02br
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00B fits if the sentence is amended slightly:02br
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00"Mark Twain sprinkled his many works with devastating satire, some of which 01b00was02b00 aimed at specific persons and places."02br
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0 The answer has to be B. If you choose E you'll have what I believe is called a "comma splice" because you have then created two sentences, which should not be punctuated with just a comma. The test-makers will be watching these niggling details very carefully so I would not risk E in a test situation.02br
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00 CJ0-
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0That's interesting. You wouldn't take "aimed" as a past participle, CJ?02br
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00MrP0-
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0I guess I didn't when I wrote my last response, did I? 05002br
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00 Now that my Necker cube has flipped I see what you mean. With that PP now in mind, I now see "it" as the better answer, just as some of you have been saying!02br
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00 What was I thinking? 02br
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00 CJ010id1
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0 So, this 'it' is related to the 'satire'?02br
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00Can I use 01b00them 02b00if I rephrase the sentence?02br
00"Mark Twain sprinkled his many works with devastating satire, some of 00them were written under great pressure."0-
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01cite10Latin12cite10So, this 'it' is related to the 'satire'?12br
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10Can I use 11b10them 12b10if I rephrase the sentence?12br
10"Mark Twain sprinkled his many works with devastating satire, some of 10them were written under great pressure."12br
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0Hi,02br
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01font00"Mark Twain sprinkled his many works with devastating satire, some of 00them were written under great pressure."02font02br
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00It's a little off the point, but this is actually two sentences, spliced together incorrectly with a comma.02br
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0I found the 05000 used as the source for the question: "In the 20th century political satire was expertly accomplished by Will Rogers, Finley Peter Dunne, and H.L. Mencken. Otherwise the type of humor associated with satire appeared in novels and poetry whose main object was not satire. William Thackeray's 01i00Vanity Fair02i00, for example, has much ironic and sat
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