According to medieval monks, the remains of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere were found at Glastonbury Abbey in A.D. 1191, and Arthur's coffin marked with theinscription (in Latin): "Here Lies Arthur, The Once and Future King."
Option Elimination -
(A) and Arthur’s coffin marked with the inscription - before, and we have a clause, and after, and we have a phrase. Wrong.
(B) Arthur's coffin marked with the inscription - This is a flexible modifier (an absolute phrase if you love jargon), which is adverbial modifying "the remains ...were found." Moreover, "in Latin" correctly modifies "the inscription." The colon is giving an example of something "in Latin"? Something what? Something that "in Latin" modifies. Ok.
(C) and the inscription was marked on Arthur's coffin - grammatically, it looks ok. But look at it from "According to monks, the remains ...were found and the inscription was marked. Marked by whom? We don't
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Option Elimination -
(A) and Arthur’s coffin marked with the inscription - before, and we have a clause, and after, and we have a phrase. Wrong.
(B) Arthur's coffin marked with the inscription - This is a flexible modifier (an absolute phrase if you love jargon), which is adverbial modifying "the remains ...were found." Moreover, "in Latin" correctly modifies "the inscription." The colon is giving an example of something "in Latin"? Something what? Something that "in Latin" modifies. Ok.
(C) and the inscription was marked on Arthur's coffin - grammatically, it looks ok. But look at it from "According to monks, the remains ...were found and the inscription was marked. Marked by whom? We don't
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Statistics : Posted by Raman109 • on 23 Dec 2010, 20:32 • Replies 32 • Views 25957
