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Difficulty: Very hardIllogical and Incomplete Comparisons

The translation strategies of seventeenth-century scholars were often constrained by limited access to historical source materials, but modern translators are characterized by a reliance on digital archives and collaborative databases.

Which choice best completes the sentence to ensure that the comparison is logical and the sentence is grammatically correct?

  1. A
    but modern translators
  2. but those of modern translatorsAnswer
  3. C
    those of modern translators
  4. D
    but translating today is

Answer

The correct answer is the option that replaces the underlined portion with 'but those of modern translators'.
The correct answer resolves the illogical comparison by using the plural pronoun 'those' to refer to 'translation strategies', successfully comparing the strategies of early scholars to the strategies of modern translators. It also preserves the coordinating conjunction 'but' to connect the two independent clauses grammatically.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Identify the compared terms in the original sentence.
The sentence compares the 'translation strategies of seventeenth-century scholars' to 'modern translators'.
To detect if there is an illogical comparison, we must ensure that the items being compared are of the same type.
2
Select a plural pronoun to represent the strategies of modern translators.
The pronoun 'those' is selected to refer back to the plural noun 'translation strategies'.
Comparing strategies to people is illogical. We must compare strategies to other strategies using a plural pronoun.
3
Analyze the sentence punctuation and conjunction needs.
A coordinating conjunction like 'but' must be retained before the second independent clause.
Removing the coordinating conjunction creates a comma splice since both sides of the comma are independent clauses.

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Illogical and Incomplete Comparisons
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