Thus parallelism is also at play in full form here. The Book of Kells, an illumination of the four gospels produced in eighth century Ireland, demonstrated what many consider the pinnacle of Celtic knotwork art and incorporated such foreign pigments as indigo from India and lapis lazuli from Afghanistan. The Book of Kells, an illumination of the four gospels produced in eighth century Ireland, demonstrated what many consider the pinnacle of Celtic knotwork art and the incorporation of such foreign pigments as indigo from India and lapis lazuli from Afghanistan. In (D) I do see a parallel structure after "demonstrated": ".demonstrated (the pinnacle) AND (the incorporation)." The only possible wrong thing with (D) could be the wordiness in use of "incorporation" rather than verb "incorporate". The first main verb is " demonstrated." We need the second verb to be in parallel with this, " incorporated," not " incorporating" or "the incorporation."Īll this is enough to isolate (E) as the only possible answer.Ĭan someone please explain, why (D) is not correct? It has is a slightly different meaning of a sentence, than in (E) (The book demonstrated pinnacle and incorporated pigments). Choice (D) and (E) have the correct structure. as," and not " like." Choices (A) and (B) are wrong on this count, and choice (C) is questionable. ![]() This is a question about the Book of Kells, one of my favorite art works in the world! Always fun to answer a question I have written! (A) a demonstration of what many consider the pinnacle of Celtic knotwork art and incorporating such foreign pigments like : is a noun phrase so it describes about The Book of Kells correctly.īut Still not sure about the ||ism here. Indigo is a noun so Like should be used instead of as. The official answer will be given after at least 3 responses The only answer to get all of these correct is (E). The words “demonstration/demonstrated” and “incorporation/incorporated” need to be in the same form: in fact, they both need to be verbs, so that the subject “the Book of Kells” has a bonafide verb. To finish the problem off, we need to consider the near-ubiquitous issue of parallelism. That split immediately narrows the choices down to (D) and (E). Incorrect: “such foreign pigments like indigo etc.” (the disastrous “such…like” combination, answers (A) & (B). Incorrect: “foreign pigments as indigo etc.” (missing the word “such”, answer (C)) Incorrect = “foreign pigments like indigo etc.” (none of the answers)Ĭorrect = “ such foreign pigments as indigo etc.” (answers (D) & (E)) That sentence gives an example of “foreign pigments”, and the two examples are “indigo from India and lapis lazuli from Afghanistan.” The possibilities are The second sentence, about the Book of Kells, a work of which I am deeply enamored, explores the “ like” / ” as” / ” such as” split in a list of examples. ![]() Notice also that the use of “ like” for a list of examples is always incorrect on the GMAT. Notice, the “ such … as” construction may involve the two words next to each other, or (as is far more likely on the GMAT SC!) separated by a word or words followed by an extended modifier. (E) demonstrated what many consider the pinnacle of Celtic knotwork art and incorporated such foreign pigments as (D) demonstrated what many consider the pinnacle of Celtic knotwork art and the incorporation of such foreign pigments as (C) demonstrated what many consider the pinnacle of Celtic knotwork art and incorporating foreign pigments as ![]() (B) demonstrated what many consider the pinnacle of Celtic knotwork art and the incorporation of such foreign pigments like (A) a demonstration of what many consider the pinnacle of Celtic knotwork art and incorporated such foreign pigments like The Book of Kells, an illumination of the four gospels produced in eighth century Ireland, a demonstration of what many consider the pinnacle of Celtic knotwork art and incorporating such foreign pigments like indigo from India and lapis lazuli from Afghanistan.
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