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dippradhan
 Post subject: SC from MGMAT CAT
 Post Posted: Thu Feb 10, 2011 3:28 pm 
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Hogarth's engravings, which provide a vivid portrait of eighteenth-century London, are of interest to both artists and historians.
a)are of interest to both
b) are both interesting to

As per the answer explaination...
(b) "Are...interesting to" sounds casual compared to the preferred idiom.

Question(1)
I am not able to understand the term refered to "sounds casual comared" . Could you please help me.
Question(2)
"are of interest to both " -- do we have to make sure word "both" is close to one of the object it refers?
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tim
 Post subject: Re: SC from MGMAT CAT
 Post Posted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 1:13 pm 
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the biggest problem is that b violates parallelism. take a closer look so you can see why..

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smohit04
 Post subject: Re: SC from MGMAT CAT
 Post Posted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 12:01 pm 
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Here 'both' should refer to artists and historians, so a is right. But in b, 'both' is refering to Hogarth's engravings, which is wrong.
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jnelson0612
 Post subject: Re: SC from MGMAT CAT
 Post Posted: Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:13 pm 
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Again, nice work smohit.

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