A vocal opponent of the unequal distribution of wealth, the itinerant : Sentence Correction (SC)

**Bunuel** · Apr 17 at 01:30am

A vocal opponent of the unequal distribution of wealth, the itinerant activist has spent time in several countries across the world, rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement.

(A) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement

(B) to rally against the callousness and injustices of governments and the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement

(C) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and tried to forge a transnational people’s movement

(D) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments and the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement

(E) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the neglecting of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement

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**Angad2553** · Apr 17 at 02:34am

Correct answer is E

railing against the ...
trying to forge a ... parallelism is maintained...
Neglecting is correct
Negligence of upper class people doesn't convey the intended meaning.

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**Jaisiyaram** · Apr 17 at 03:51am

Verb Form, Parallelism

1.

the itinerant activist has spent time in several countries across the world

so using participle phrase

railing

is appropriate. Eliminate C

2. Maintain the parallelism of Railing, neglecting and trying. Eliminate A, B, D

3. B and D are wordy and awkward.

Correct answer is E.

**Charlotte12345** · Apr 17 at 04:18am

I think D has to be the correct answer as it is the only sentence which makes it clear that the activist was railing against "the callousness and injustices of governments and the negligence of the upper classes" and was "trying to forge a transnational people’s movement"

E is unclear because it includes "trying to forge a transnational people's movement" in the enumeration of things the activist was railing against.

**szcz** · Apr 17 at 06:53am

A vocal opponent of the unequal distribution of wealth, the itinerant activist has spent time in several countries across the world, railing against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement.

(A) railing against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement
According to this option railing is common for all three terms, which cannot be possible as "railing against trying" makes no sense.

(B) to rail against the callousness and injustices of governments and the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement
Again parallelism error since "to rail" is not parallel to "trying.

(C) railed against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and tried to forge a transnational people’s movement
Incorrect tense. Also parallelism error since "railed against tried" doesnt mean anything

(D) railing against the callousness and injustices of governments and the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement
Correct option.
Callousness and injustices are parallel. The negligence is parallel to the callousness. "Trying to forge" is parallel to "railing against".

(E) railing against the callousness and injustices of governments, the neglecting of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement
Incorrect Parallelism. "railing against trying" doesnt mean anything.

**Karan0912**

(A) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement Almost correct. The only error is there is no conjunction before the negligence. True meaning is rallying against the callousness...and rallying against the negligence. Without And before negligence the list items of parallelism become 3 instead of 2...with trying to forge becoming the 3rd item of the list and that is wrong on many levels

(B) to rally against the callousness and injustices of governments and the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement to rally and trying arent parallel. Former is prepositional phrase and later is verb

(C) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the negligence of the upper classes, and tried to forge a transnational people’s movement rallying and tried arent parallel. Former is ing modifier and later is past tense verb

(D) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments and the negligence of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement Correct

(E) rallying against the callousness and injustices of governments, the neglecting of the upper classes, and trying to forge a transnational people’s movement Error similar to A

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