<p>D seemed right to my year, but I can’t pinpoint the grammatical device which makes it right; can someone explain what it is?</p>
<p>Anyone who has high motivation or is reasonably intelligent can learn to play a competent game of chess.</p>
<p>(A) has high motivation or is reasonably intelligent
(B) has either high motivation or else intelligence in reasonable amounts
(C) is highly motivated or who has reasonable intelligence instead
(D) is highly motivated or reasonably intelligent
(E) has high motivation or else reasonable amounts of intelligence</p>
<p>A doesn’t work because you can’t have high.
B doesn’t work because you still can’t have high.
C doesn’t work because who has is redundant and the instead completely changes the meaning of the sentence.
E doesn’t work because or else is used incorrectly in the sentence, also you still can’t have high. </p>
<p>So, based on POE you get D.</p>
<p>why can’t you have high? (This was the part that was confusing me)</p>
<p>You can not have a degree. High is not a thing, it is used to describe something. When one says that they are high(up) they are talking about a degree relative to the normal. </p>
<p>You can’t have high in much the same was that you can not have good.</p>
<p>“high motivation” and “reasonably intelligent” do not match gramatically.
The sentence would be EITHER choice “D” OR maybe
<em>Anyone who has high motivation or reasonable intelligence can learn to play a competent game of chess</em> in order to pair up those two fragments. This error is quite similar to Faulty Parallelism. Would you have high first (which is adjective) and then right after mention an adverb(reasonably) when you’re trying to say basically the same thing?</p>
<p>Who has high motivation says the state of being like something - who pertains or has a high motivation. Reasonably intelligent describes the person, not a state of being like something. So they do not match up. Kinda get where I’m getting to? Basically the same as:
- I like the type of person who is sarcastic and has humor. OR
- I like the type of person who is sarcastic and humorous.
Which one? I think I’ll go by 2. Sarcastic and Humorous are Descriptions of the type of person you want. Both match since they are adjectives.
See numero 1. Sarcastic is adjective, however “has humor” is not. You’re just saying a person that would have that characteristic, that has that humor but still it’s not an adjective.</p>
<p>SOOOOOOOOOOOO, to sum it up, you CANNOT have high since you want to match it up with the structure of reasonably, which is an adverb. So HIGHLY motivated and REASONABLY intelligent. I hope that helped. </p>
<p>~kevster</p>
<p>^^^
good detailed explanation</p>
<p>I just immediately noticed that only D had parallelism, it took like 10 seconds</p>
<p>thanks subsidon. </p>
<p>it’s good that you noticed it. </p>
<p>In few words Logicus - error = FAULTY PARALLELISM (like mentioned before)</p>