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Difficulty: HardAdjectives, Adverbs, and Modifiers

During a parliamentary session on environmental legislation, a rapporteur drafted a statement regarding new pollution limits. Which sentence uses modifiers correctly to convey the statement without grammatical error or ambiguity?

  1. Having carefully reviewed the environmental report, the committee introduced considerably stricter regulations on industrial emissions.Answer
  2. B
    Having carefully reviewed the environmental report, considerably stricter regulations on industrial emissions were introduced by the committee.
  3. C
    Having carefully reviewed the environmental report, the committee introduced considerable stricter regulations on industrial emissions.
  4. D
    Having carefully reviewed the environmental report, the committee introduced regulations that were complimentary to existing policy.

Answer

The sentence that correctly structures the introductory participial phrase to modify 'the committee' while using the adverb 'considerably' to modify the adjective 'stricter'.
The correct formulation ensures that the introductory participial phrase 'Having carefully reviewed the environmental report' logically and syntactically attaches to 'the committee', which is the entity doing the reviewing. Furthermore, it accurately employs the adverb 'considerably' to intensify the comparative adjective 'stricter'.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the introductory participial phrase 'Having carefully reviewed the environmental report'.
Identified that the subject performing the review action must immediately follow the comma.
Participial phrases must modify the agent performing the action to avoid dangling modifiers.
2
Evaluate the head noun following the comma across options.
'The committee' is the logical agent that reviewed the report, whereas 'considerably stricter regulations' cannot review a report.
Attaching the participial phrase to 'regulations' creates a dangling modifier.
3
Examine adverbial vs adjectival modification and word choice.
The word modifying the comparative adjective 'stricter' must be the adverb 'considerably', not the adjective 'considerable'. Additionally, 'complementary' (completing) is required rather than 'complimentary' (praising/free).
Adjectives are modified by adverbs, and paronyms/homophones must be distinguished precisely.

Key Concept

Modifiers: Dangling participial phrases, degree adverbs, and paronym precision
Estimated Time:1m 30s
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Adjectives, Adverbs, and Modifiers

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