88.Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted in the stride-piano tradition of Willie (The Lion) Smith and Duke Ellington, yet in many ways he stood apart from the mainstream jazz repertory. (A)Thelonious Monk, who was a jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work both rooted
(B)Thelonious Monk, the jazz pianist and composer, produced a body of work that was rooted both
(C)Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk, who produced a body of work rooted
(D)Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work that was rooted
(E)Jazz pianist and composer Thelonious Monk produced a body of work rooted both
Grammatical construction; Rhetorical construction
The subject of the sentence is Thelonious Monk, and the sentence tells about two things that he did: produced and stood apart. Tne work he produced was rooted in the mainstream {stride piano) jazz tradition, yet at the same time, he deviated from this tradition. The use of a relative clause (who was a jazz pianist...) or an appositive (thejazz pianist...) introduces unnecessary wordiness and grammatical complexity. Since only one point is being made about Monk's body of work, the appearance of the word both in the clause presenting the claim about Monk's work is deceptive as well as grammatically incorrect.
AThe relative clause introduces wordiness and confusion.
BThe appositive introduces wordiness and unnecessary grammatical complexity.
CThe sentence is a fragment because the main subject, Thelonious Monk, has no verb.
DCorrect. The sentence concisely identifies Thelonious Monk and expresses the single point about his work without unnecessary or misleading words.
EThe appearance of both is misleading, since only one point is being made about where Monk's musical roots are located.
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