<p>"No biographer can attest to absolute accuracy in documenting the activities of his or her (subject, this biographer of Cesar Chavez is no exception).</p>
<p>A) subject, this biographer of Cesar Chavez is no exception
B) subject, and this biographer of Cesar Chavez is no exception
C) subject; this biography of Cesar Chavez is no exception
D) subject; such a biography of this one of Cesar Chavez is no exception
E) subject, with this Cesar Chavez biographer being no exception</p>
<p>I chose C, but the answer is B.
I understand why C is incorrect, but why is B chosen over E?</p>
<p>Thanks (:</p>
<p>E just sounds awkward. D is also awkward, and A (original) is incorrect since it has a comma splice. I would rather pick B over E.</p>
<p>I’m not the best at grammar; do you know why is B picked over C? Is the semicolon used incorrectly?</p>
<p>@rspence answer C compares biographer to biography, so subjects don’t match in the clauses.</p>
<p>answer E is pretty tricky because a lot of people ACTUALLY use that phrasing in conversation. but the preposition ‘with’ makes no sense in reality. there’s got to be a verb in front of that.</p>
<p>@2redpartyhats oh I see now. Wasn’t paying enough attention lol. Thanks</p>
<p>I still do not understand why it is b, “biographer” is a person and “biographer of Cesar” means that Cesar owns a biographer? That does not even make sense to me.
Sorry if i missed something because I’m not really familiar with English grammar.</p>
<p>see when we compare things we must stick to the format of comparison quite strictly, that is we can only compare two subjects that belong to the same category (person, item, time, location etc.)
so the subject of the sentence is “biographers” so we have to put 'biographers" (person), not “biography” (item)</p>