<p>"A poetic form congenial to Robert Browning was the dramatic monologue, it let him explorea character's mind without the simplifications demanded by stage productions</p>
<p>B: monologue, which let him explore
C: monologue that lets him explore</p>
<p>Why is it B and not C, B uses "let" which would imply that dramatic monologue would be plural, could someone explain</p>
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<li>Intimacy, love, and marriage are three different, if interrelated, subjects.
Why is this better than "different subjects when interrelated."</li>
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<p>There are two problems with answer (C). Firstly, “lets” need to be in the past tense. Secondly, “let him explore” is not defining the specific monologue used; it’s describing an attribute of a drama monologue as it applied to Robert Browning’s employment of the form. Thus, “which” should be used to introduce the non-restrictive clause.</p>
<p>“different subjects when interrelated” is illogical. The three concepts are forever different; they don’t suddenly become different when someone shows how they relate to each other.</p>
<p>Being forever different doesn’t eliminate the possibility of interrelation (they aren’t necessarily entirely different). “if” isn’t being used in a hypothetical or conditional sense here; it’s more nearly being used to mean “though.”</p>
<p>^that’s a good point. IDK how to rebuke that statement. A little help?
I admit that when i took that test, i chose “different, if interrelated, subjects”
however, “…when interrelated subjects” looked very tempting and yet i haven’t found a valid explanation to not choose that statement.</p>
<p>No no they do. I was responding to Mde’s statement. If you look at the corresponding times of our posts, they were only a minute apart and so i did not realize you posted the minute before i posted because i was writing by the time you posted.</p>
<p>I’m not sure whether you want both explained again, so I’ll cover all bases.</p>
<p>Question One:</p>
<p>The sentence is in past tense, so “let” needs to be accordingly conjugated. (C) is also wrong because the dependent adjective clause “that lets him explore” is restrictive. In other words, the description of the monologue attempts to define the noun phrase; we know this because no comma is used to offset it, and because “that” is used. </p>
<p>By using “which” with a preceding comma, we show that the phrase merely describes the monologue and does not attempt to define it. When I use “define” in this context, I mean that which tries to narrow, or restrict (thus, a restrictive vs. non-restrictive clause), the noun phrase.</p>
<p>For example:</p>
<p>I ate the calculator, which was tasty-looking. (Non-restrictive)</p>
<p>I ate the calculator that was tasty-looking. (Restrictive)</p>
<p>In the former example, the calculator is merely being described not defined. In the latter example, the calculator I ate is being restricted and differentiated from some exophoric and implicit group of calculators through its being tasty-looking.</p>
<p>The intended meaning of the sentence is that intimacy, love, and marriage are different but nonetheless related. These are not mutually exclusive concepts. </p>
<p>“different subjects when interrelated,” whatever the context, is illogical. The process of interrelation attempts to show foundational parallels among concepts; it would likely not highlight the differences among the concepts, and it would certainly not, as the incorrect choice suggests, render them different.</p>
<p>Here are rephrasings and intended elucidations of the sentences resulting from the alternative answer choices’ effective meanings:</p>
<p>No change: </p>
<p>Although they are related to one another, intimacy, love, and marriage are three different subjects.</p>
<p>With incorrect choice:</p>
<p>When one demonstrates the similarities among intimacy, love, and marriage, the three subjects become different.</p>
<p>^ That is an ugly question: (A) is ungrammatical, and (C) is verbose. However, (C) is so characteristic of the answers that the College Board hates that it screams of being wrong.</p>
<p>So, did the College Board compromise in grammaticality or terseness?</p>
<p>Yeah that’s what I was thinking… but what makes C grammatically correct again and why is A ungrammatical ( i think have the jist but a proper rule would be nice)</p>
i think i get it lol</p>