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The haunting beautiful song that the lead soloist performed was thought by all to be worthy of an encore.

 

 

(A) The haunting beautiful song that the lead soloist performed was thought by all to be worthy of an encore

(B) The haunting beautiful song, which the lead soloist has performed, was thought by all to be worthy of an encore

© The hauntingly beautiful song, which the lead soloist performed, had been thought by all to be worthy of an encore

(D) The performance by the lead soloist of haunting beautiful song was thought by all to be worthy of an encore

(E) The lead soloist’s hauntingly beautiful song was thought by all to be a performance worthy of an encore

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Seems tricky,

 

A seems to be ambiguous as it doesnt set the time frame right.

They thought the performance to be worthy of encore first and then the artist performed or vice versa?

 

B Same goes for B. Has makes the sentence awkward.

C does use past perfect o set the ambiguity right but i guess it changes the logic of the sentence.

 

They thought that performance was worthy of encore even before the artist performed, seems unlikely.

 

D- the performance, does it necessarily mean that the soloist performed the same performance or he did something else. Meaning is not clear whether he performed the same song or not. Moreover it doesnt set the ambiguity about the timing right.

 

E-seems appropriate out of all the options.

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The haunting beautiful song that the lead soloist performed was thought by all to be worthy of an encore.

 

 

(A) The haunting beautiful song that the lead soloist performed was thought by all to be worthy of an encore

(B) The haunting beautiful song, which the lead soloist has performed, was thought by all to be worthy of an encore

© The hauntingly beautiful song, which the lead soloist performed, had been thought by all to be worthy of an encore

(D) The performance by the lead soloist of haunting beautiful song was thought by all to be worthy of an encore

(E) The lead soloist’s hauntingly beautiful song was thought by all to be a performance worthy of an encore

 

E is wordy

 

IMO A

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It was the performance that was worthy of encore and not the song. Hence 'A', 'B' and 'C' are ruled out.

'Hauntingly beautiful' in 'E' changes the meaning.

Hence D. :)

 

What makes you think that ?

 

 

I guess If that were the case, Haunting should modify beautiful and not song

 

in the form of hauntingly

 

DID I miss something ????????

 

Please help

 

Thanks

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12rk34,

Can you please elaborate.

Hauntingly beautiful seems good to me.

 

B&B,

Do not you think setting the time frame rights is required in A.

 

What happened first? Performance or the thought of encore?

 

How could anyone think that performance woukd be worthy of encore even before it has happened???

 

Plz throw some light.

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BEAR & BULL, JOHN

'hauntingly beautiful song' (adv. +adj. + noun) is certainly a correct construction but my reasoning was based on the fact that in no case tne meaning conveyed by 'A' should be changed.

If you compare it with OG question (choice 'A') :While some academicians believe....only if it would be taught as a separately required course.

Here the correct choice 'B' is :

only if it is taught as a separate, required course.

Here 'A' is incorrect, while there is a comma between the two adjectives in 'B'.

OA pls.

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BEAR & BULL, JOHN

'hauntingly beautiful song' (adv. +adj. + noun) is certainly a correct construction but my reasoning was based on the fact that in no case tne meaning conveyed by 'A' should be changed.

If you compare it with OG question (choice 'A') :While some academicians believe....only if it would be taught as a separately required course.

Here the correct choice 'B' is :

only if it is taught as a separate, required course.

Here 'A' is incorrect, while there is a comma between the two adjectives in 'B'.

OA pls.

 

 

The examples you gave are basically coordinate adjectives

 

Coordinate adjectives are exchangeable

 

Let us test separate and required course

 

test1) separate and required course

 

test 2) required separate test

 

Acceptable

 

Hence we provide comma between them

 

 

 

Let us test the adjectives in hand

 

Haunting beautiful song

 

test1) Haunting and beautiful song

 

test2) beautiful haunting song

 

The second test fails to prove them coordinate adjectives and hence , we don't need a comma

 

HTH!

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BEAR & BULL, JOHN

'hauntingly beautiful song' (adv. +adj. + noun) is certainly a correct construction but my reasoning was based on the fact that in no case tne meaning conveyed by 'A' should be changed.

If you compare it with OG question (choice 'A') :While some academicians believe....only if it would be taught as a separately required course.

Here the correct choice 'B' is :

only if it is taught as a separate, required course.

Here 'A' is incorrect, while there is a comma between the two adjectives in 'B'.

OA pls.

 

12rk34

 

Ideally it should not happen, but it happens all the time on GMAT land.

 

If you could check SC question 103 in OG 11, then you will be surprised to know that OA completely changes the meaning of the original sentence.

 

There are many more examples of such questions.

 

Comments?

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The haunting beautiful song that the lead soloist performed was thought by all to be worthy of an encore.

 

 

(A) The haunting beautiful song that the lead soloist performed was thought by all to be worthy of an encore

(B) The haunting beautiful song, which the lead soloist has performed, was thought by all to be worthy of an encore tense error

© The hauntingly beautiful song, which the lead soloist performed, had been thought by all to be worthy of an encore tense error

(D) The performance by the lead soloist of haunting beautiful song was thought by all to be worthy of an encore

(E) The lead soloist’s hauntingly beautiful song was thought by all to be a performance worthy of an encore

seems strectched

 

I narrowed them into A or E. It seems E is strectched "performance worthy of an encore"

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