GMAT SC1000 Question No #503

4. Margaret Courtney-Clarke has traveled to remote dwellings in the Transvaal to photograph the art of Ndebele women, whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house.

(A) whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography and in a style that varies from woman to woman and house to house
(B) whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography, and their style is varying among women and houses
(C) whose murals are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries are embellished with old and new iconography, and they are in styles that vary from woman to woman and house to house
(D) with murals brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography, and their style varies among women and houses
(E) with murals that are brilliantly colored, their geometrical symmetries embellished with old and new iconography, and their styles vary among women and houses

The options D) and E) have 'with murals brightely coloured' which distorts the meaning meaning mrs clarke visited these places wearing ''murals '

B&C say that womens' style is varying.. Again this is wrong


So Ans is A

Another explaination

A has a absolute phrase ...

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http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/sentence/2_4e.htm

Learnings:

1) What is an absolute phrase
2) Read complete sentence to see if its meaning full. try to relate all parts of the sentence