<p>OC 1 Questions
I’ll leave some space in case anyone wants to try without knowing the answer.</p>
<p>Chinese watercolors have become more popular than
American and European artists who are their
contemporaries.</p>
<p>(A) American and European artists who are their
contemporaries
(B) contemporary American and European artists
(C) those by contemporary American and European
artists of the period
(D) those of American and European pictures of the
same period
(E) those by contemporary American and European
artists</p>
<p>The answer is E.
Since contemporary can mean both “modern” and “at the same time,” I chose the answer C, because it clarifies with “of the period.” Why would this phrase be considered implied and redundant?</p>
<p>His love of politics led A him B to volunteer in local campaigns as well C as a job D in a government office in the state capital. No error(E) </p>
<p>“As a job” is considered not parallel with the verb phrase “to volunteer”, but could the preposition “in” be implied? For example, “…to volunteer in… this as well as that”</p>
“of the period” is ambiguous. There is no period specified in the sentence. “contemporary of the period” doesn’t make sense (occurring at the same time of the period?), and “artists of the period” is ambiguous since “the period” seems not to refer to anything. So it doesn’t fit in the sentence. If you want to use “contemporary” as “belonging to the same time,” you say something like His invention was contemporary with her invention.
Yes, the preposition “in” can be implied along with “[to] volunteer,” as in …led him to volunteer in local campaigns as well as [to] volunteer in a job…, which doesn’t make sense since you can’t volunteer in a job, but is correct in construction and syntax.</p>
<p>“as well as” can function as either a conjunction (try replacing it with and: …led him to volunteer in local campaigns and volunteer in a job…) or a preposition (which means “job” would be paired with “campaigns,” suggesting the same illogical result: …led him to volunteer in [local campaigns and a job]…). Either way the implication is that you can “volunteer” in a job. The sentence would be correct if it read something like this: …led him to volunteer in local campaigns as well as hold a job….</p>
<p>So this is logic error, not a parallelism error? </p>
<p>CB provides the following.
Explanation for Correct Answer D :
The error in this sentence occurs at (D), where there is a flaw in parallelism. The
noun phrase “a job” is not parallel with the earlier verbal phrase “to volunteer.”</p>
<p>So, for clarification purposes, its basically saying that “volunteer” doesn’t go with “job” because you can’t volunteer in a job, right?</p>
<p>Also, thank you, Crazybandit, for always being there when I need writing help.</p>
You can think of it like that, but it is also an error in parallelism in that you want a verb like “hold” (“hold a job”) to preclude the implication that you can “volunteer” in a job; so by introducing a new verb, that is in line with another verb, you are making the structure “parallel.”