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Vishaljain23231 Posted 13 years ago
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English Sentence Correction

The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early experiments in his “Essay on Heat and Light,” a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.
The phrase a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a .....is correct or should it be replaced with
1. a critique of all chemistry following Robert Boyle and also his envisioning of a
2. a critique of all chemistry after Robert Boyle and envisioning as well
3. critiquing all chemistry from Robert Boyle forward and also a vision of
4. critiquing all the chemistry done since Robert Boyle as well as his own envisioning of
  

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vishaljain23231 The nineteenth-century chemist Humphry Davy presented the results of his early experiments in his “Essay on Heat and Light,” a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a new chemistry that Davy hoped to found.The phrase a critique of all chemistry since Robert Boyle as well as a vision of a .....is correct or should it be replace
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My answer is 4, as in options 1, 2 and 3..there is an error of parallelism. But, am not sure what is wrong with original statement. It might be that the author was talking about results of the experiments in first clause of the sentence and then without completing that he started talking about the essay as critique of.....
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vishaljain23231My answer is 4, as in options 1, 2 and 3..there is an error of parallelism.
Yes. Good observation. I appreciate your efforts in trying to solve this problem yourself. You have successfully eliminated quite a few choices that you know cannot be correct.

And by the way, did you notice that even 4 has an error of parallelism? The -in
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CalifJimThis has the unfortunate effect of making "his own envisioning" an object of "critiquing", thus saying that Davy is critiquing his own envisioning of a new chemistry!
This was deep. I couldn't think that much! Great explanation CJ! I guess must be a professor or a student of linguistics and if not, then you should become one
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vishaljain23231Also, shouldn't it be have found in the last part of sentence "new chemistry that Davy hoped to found."
I think you've got the wrong verb!

to find ~ to discover

find, found, found

I can't find my glasses. It seems I have lost them.
I found some money in my pocket that I didn't know I had!
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