Dear Ron Sir,
May I ask how we could tell the subject should only be "BEAM robots" instead of "brainlike circuits" ? Guidances from Instructor Michael and Instructor Joe Lucero, if I don't interpret wrongly, say because "Beam robots" appear in Answer (A) while "brainlike circuits" does not appear in Answer (A). But because one of your lectures taught us that Answer A has no priority than other answers and because I'm pretty sure that even if orders of answers switch, the correct answer is still the same, I still have the question why choice D "brainlike circuits" cannot be subject here.
Is "for BEAM robots learning to..." the error of Choice D? As you have taught us in your "Thursday" sessions that "preposition + noun + -ing" is wrong when "-ing" is not modifier to the noun. ( Exception- the construction "with noun +-ing/-ed" is all right)
Thank you so much!
( I have exact same questions as those of
AbhilashM94 and
CrystalSpringston. But I don't find answer addressing CrystalSpringston's latest question, which was asked more than one year ago.
I ask this question after having studied the guidances from Instructor Michael and Instructor Joe Lucero, and I can see that AbhilashM94 and CrystalSpringston asked their questions after checking posts as well. Please forgive me that I make this statement because I'm quite worried that this question has not been answered because of the misunderstanding that we repeat asking the same question without checking the answers firstly.)
mschwrtz Wrote:When a sentence begins with a participial phrase followed by a comma, the participial phrase will either modify the subject of the main clause or attribute action to the subject of the main clause, which subject will immediately follow the comma.
In this sentence, the participial phrase Pioneered by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory should modify BEAM robots, so BEAM robots must follow the comma.
jlucero Wrote:Those could be a subject of a sentence, but then the opening modifier is modifying circuits instead of BEAM robots. Also, the main idea of the sentence changes from what BEAM robots can do, to circuits are being used. Each of these are reasons to eliminate D/E.
tim Wrote:aakash.saxena33 Wrote:whats wrong with D ?
Michael already explained this. Please read the entire thread before asking a question that has already been asked and answered..