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Choreographer and Dancer Savion Glover Aims to Restore the African Roo GMAT Sentence Correction

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Sayantani Barman

Experta en el extranjero | Updated On - Dec 30, 2022

Question: Choreographer and dancer Savion Glover aims to restore the African roots of tap dance by eliminating hand gestures and he returns to a focus on the feet as the primary source of movement.

A) he returns to a focus on the feet
B) return to a focus on the feet
C) returning to the feet's focusing
D) returned to the feet as a focus
E) returning that the feet be the focus

Answer: B
Explanation:

The following points could be used to justify the suggested alteration to the sentence:

  • Parallelism
  • Considering two distinct facts
  • Modifiers

When we first read this, it seems to suggest that Savion Glover wants to accomplish two things to bring tap dance back to its African roots.
Eliminating hand motions seems to be the first step.
The parallel text should be read after this.
However, we discover that the second point is worded incorrectly, and he switches back to concentrating on the feet.
If the sentence were to read, "by removing hand motions and [by] returning to a concentration on the feet," the word "returning" would be acceptable.

A: Incorrect
It is an incorrect answer. “Return” and “eliminating” are not parallel.

B: Correct
This is the correct answer. accurate Both restore and return are "bare" infinitives, meaning they are essentially infinitives without the preposition "to." Restore appears earlier in the text. Both verbs are covered by the word TO [from "to restore"]. To return, to thus persists. See below, under "Splitting the Verb"

C: incorrect
This is an incorrect choice. It is illogical because the concentrating of the feet indicates that the feet are focusing. Feet are not focused. Option C doesn't make any sense within the clause. Glover seeks to return to the African roots of movement by doing away with hand gestures and focusing once more on the feet as the main means of propulsion. How many "AS the primary source of movement" be combined with the feet's focusing? That language is absurd.

D: incorrect
It is an incorrect answer. The concept of being returned does not exist.
In TO RETURN, the simple infinitive is always just, return.
The past tense is returned. There is no indication in the sentence that a verb tense shift is necessary. Get rid of D

E: Incorrect
It is the incorrect answer. Returning that is grammatically incorrect; returning TO is the proper idiom; and returning that the feet be the focus is illegible. There is nothing said in the phrase.

“Choreographer and dancer Savion Glover aims to restore the African roo” - is a GMAT sentence correction question. The text that is underlined in these questions has grammatical mistakes, and we must select the right response from the list of possibilities. The GMAT verbal section includes GMAT sentence correction.

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