Sentence Correction

When reading some of the most rich and beautiful speeches in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, when one stresses the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter, the lines take on an almost simpleminded, childish quality.

A. when one stresses the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter, the lines take on an almost simpleminded, childish quality
B. stressing the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter gives the linesan almost simpleminded, childish quality
C. if one stresses the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter, it gives the lines an almost simpleminded, childish quality
D. the simpleminded, childish quality of some lines results from the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter
E. the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter, sounds almost simpleminded and childish

E - Subject Verb Agreement. Here the part before the comma correctly modifies the subject. Best Choice IMO.

IMO B.

A) The original sentence looks awkward to me.

C) 'It' looks awkward to me. I also believe C changes the meaning as it is not "the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter" that gives "an almost simpleminded, childish quality", It's the stressing.

D & E omit the stressing part all together. This changes the meaning.

B appropriately uses the gerund "stressing the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter" to indicate what actually makes the lines "an almost simpleminded, childish quality"

hardik.jadeja wrote:IMO B.

A) The original sentence looks awkward to me.

C) 'It' looks awkward to me. I also believe C changes the meaning as it is not "the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter" that gives "an almost simpleminded, childish quality", It's the stressing.

D & E omit the stressing part all together. This changes the meaning.

B appropriately uses the gerund "stressing the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter" to indicate what actually makes the lines "an almost simpleminded, childish quality"

Nice explanation! This makes sense to me. Does this SC look right to you? Also can you elaborate on gerunds and the best source to read up on their usage. Many thanks in advance!

Down to C and E, But in C, I think 'it' is ambiguous so would go for E.

OA please??

hardik.jadeja wrote:IMO B.

A) The original sentence looks awkward to me.

C) 'It' looks awkward to me. I also believe C changes the meaning as it is not "the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter" that gives "an almost simpleminded, childish quality", It's the stressing.

D & E omit the stressing part all together. This changes the meaning.

B appropriately uses the gerund "stressing the singsong cadence of iambic pentameter" to indicate what actually makes the lines "an almost simpleminded, childish quality"

Nice explanation! This makes sense to me. Does this SC look right to you? Also can you elaborate on gerunds and the best source to read up on their usage. Many thanks in advance!

RumpelThickSkin wrote: Nice explanation! This makes sense to me. Does this SC look right to you? Also can you elaborate on gerunds and the best source to read up on their usage. Many thanks in advance!

The sentence structure does look right to me. Not sure whether the SC is of GMAT quality though.

For Gerund:
You may want to refer following links:
https://www.chompchomp.com/terms/gerund.htm
https://www.chompchomp.com/terms/gerundphrase.htm

OA B
hardik.jadeja, thank you for really good explanations.

Question for everybody:
Do you think that such kind of questions is good proxy for real SC from GMAT? The source is not one of the recomended books such as OG, Verbal OG, Kaplan etc... but it looks like harder than they.

hardik.jadeja wrote:

RumpelThickSkin wrote: Nice explanation! This makes sense to me. Does this SC look right to you? Also can you elaborate on gerunds and the best source to read up on their usage. Many thanks in advance!

The sentence structure does look right to me. Not sure whether the SC is of GMAT quality though.

For Gerund:
You may want to refer following links:
https://www.chompchomp.com/terms/gerund.htm
https://www.chompchomp.com/terms/gerundphrase.htm

Thanks for the links Hardik! Really helped out