Question:
Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.
A. Famed for his masterful use of irony, many of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories have become classics due to the author slowly revealing at the end of each piece a tragic twist of fate.
B. Many of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories have become classics because of how he famously and masterfully uses irony, evident in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
C. Famed for using irony in a masterful way, many of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories have become classics because of the author slowly revealing a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
D. Many of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories have become classics because of the author’s famed and masterful use of irony, evidenced in the slow revelation of a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece.
E. Many of Guy de Maupassant’s short stories have become classics because he slowly revealed a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece, demonstrating his famed and masterful use of irony.
Spoiler QA:D
Solution:
A. This contains a misplaced modifier. Modifier at start modifies “many of…” not Guy de Maupassant.
B. Because we are referring to Maupassant’s short stories we can not later use the subject pronoun he. He - references possessive “Guy de Maupassant’s” not Guy de Maupassant himself.It’s fine to use a possessive such as his.
C. This contains a misplaced modifier. Modifier at start modifies “many of…” not Guy de Maupassant.
D. This is the correct answer. It correct the possessive error by introducing a noun.
E. Because we are referring to Maupassant’s short stories we can not later use the subject pronoun he. He references possessive “Guy de Maupassant’s” not Guy de Maupassant himself. It’s fine to use a possessive such as his.
The correct answer is D.
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