rx_11 Wrote:In choice C, what is the modifier " Less successful ...."? Is it a noun modifier?
this sort of modifier -- an
initial modifier
that begins with an adjective -- should fulfill the following two requirements:
(1) the
adjective should
refer to the subject that follows the comma;
(2) the description in the modifier should
have some sort of
easily understandable relationship to whatever is described in the following clause
for instance:
Fresh from the tree, the mangoes were difficult to eat because they were not yet ripe.
--> requirement (1): "fresh (from the tree)" describes the mangoes.
--> requirement (2): the fact
that the mangoes were fresh from the tree is directly related
to the fact
that they were not yet ripe enough
to eat.
same thing here:
--> requirement (1): "
less successful" does describe photographer lotte jacobi.
--> requirement (2): note the relationship between the description in the modifier ("
less successful than
she had been in her native germany") and the description in the following clause -- note especially the word "nevertheless", which makes it explicitly clear
that the
sentence is focused on the relationship between these two ideas.
Moreover, should we add a "being" before less? That is "Being less successful...., she....." Is this sentence correct?
i wouldn't say
that it's totally incorrect, but it's bad writing, and it definitely won't appear in
a correct answer.
in general,
you aren't going
to see initial modifiers
that start
with "being", because, in those cases,
you could simply omit "being"
to get
a better, clearer, and more concise
sentence.