Vocabulary 4000 - Noel's ESL eBook Library
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Idiom & Usage 151<br />
4. Traveling across and shooting the vast expanse of the Southwest, in 1945<br />
Ansel Adams began his photographic career.<br />
(A) Traveling across and shooting the vast expanse of the Southwest, in<br />
1945 Ansel Adams began his photographic career.<br />
(B) In 1945, Ansel Adams began his photographic career, traveling across<br />
and shooting the vast expanse of the Southwest.<br />
(C) Having traveled across and shooting the vast expanse of the<br />
Southwest, in 1945 Ansel Adams began his photographic career.<br />
(D) Ansel Adams, in 1945 began his photographic career, traveling across<br />
and shooting the vast expanse of the Southwest.<br />
(E) Traveling across and shooting the vast expanse of the Southwest,<br />
Ansel Adams began his photographic career in 1945.<br />
Choice (A) has two flaws. First, the introductory phrase is too long.<br />
Second, the subject Ansel Adams should immediately follow the<br />
introductory phrase since it was Ansel Adams—not the year 1945—<br />
who was traveling and shooting the Southwest.<br />
Choice (B) is incorrect because the phrase “traveling across…<br />
Southwest” is too far from its subject Ansel Adams. As written, the<br />
sentence seems to imply that the photographic career was traveling<br />
across and shooting the Southwest.<br />
Choice (C) is inconsistent in verb tense. Further, it implies that<br />
Adams began his photographic career after he traveled across the<br />
Southwest.<br />
Choice (D) is awkward.<br />
The best answer is choice (E).
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