Sentence Correction - 2
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Which of phrases given below each sentence should replace the phrase printed in bold and underline type to make the grammatically correct? If the sentence is correct as it is, mark 'E' as the answer.
Option(B) is correct
Answers A and E start with a dangling modifier. Answer C uses begun instead of began and D is unclear because we do not know who is working.
Option(B) is correct
A modifying phrase needs to be placed by the word it modifies. However, as the sentence is originally written, after years of working on Wall Street illogically modifies an apartment. It was not the apartment that worked for years on Wall Street but famed investment banker John E. Callan who worked for years on Wall Street. The sentence can be corrected in two ways:
(1) After years of working on Wall Street, famed investment banker John E. Callan
(2) OR: After years of working on Wall Street, John E. Callan
A . the phrase even despite his owning of is not idiomatically correct and should be replaced by even though he also owned
B. famed investment banker John E. Callan is logically modified by the phrase after years of working on Wall Street
C. an apartment in lower Manhattan is illogically modified by the phrase after years of working on Wall Street
D. the phrase he too is not grammatically correct since it implies that there is another person who also owned a house in Rye and in East Hampton; the word too should be removed
E. an apartment in lower Manhattan is illogically modified by the phrase after years of working on Wall Street