Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current

[ayako.maeda]

Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, because he was excited with the prospects of harnessing niagra falls for producing electric power,he predicted in the mid-1890's that electricity generated at Niagara would one day power the streetcars of London and the streetlights of Paris.

A. Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, because he was excited with the prospects of harnessing Niagara Falls for producing electric power,he

B. The prospects of harnessing Niagara falls to produce electric power was exciting to Nikola Tesla, the inventory of alternating current, and so he

C. Excited about the prospects of harnessing Niagara Falls to produce electric power, Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, (correct answer)

D. Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, excited about the prospects of harnessing Niagara falls for production of electric power and

E. The inventory of alternating current, excited with the prospects of harnessing Niagara falls for producing electric power, Nikola Tesla


I chose D and I do not see why C is a better choice than D. Please someone help me out to understand this. Thank you!

[RonPurewal]

I chose D and I do not see why C is a better choice than D. Please someone help me out to understand this. Thank you!

the parallelism created in that choice doesn't work.
specifically, that choice attempts to set up "excited..." and "predicted..." in parallel.
that's impossible, because "excited" is a modifier describing tesla (NOT a verb), but "predicted" is a verb.

note that, in the correct answer, "excited" is correctly used as a modifier to describe mr. tesla.

[thanghnvn]

Ron, "excite" can not be a verb which take object.
I can not say

I excite about your SC explanation

I have to say

I am excited about your SC explanation.

Is my thinking correct?

[RonPurewal]

Ron, "excite" can not be a verb which take object.
I can not say

I excite about your SC explanation

I have to say

I am excited about your SC explanation.

Is my thinking correct?

thanghnvn, you may want to double-check the definition of "object" and then come back to this issue.
you can, indeed, write "i am excited by your explanation" -- which means that you can also write "your explanation excites me". that has an object.

[aashu4uiit]

I chose D and I do not see why C is a better choice than D. Please someone help me out to understand this. Thank you!

the parallelism created in that choice doesn't work.
specifically, that choice attempts to set up "excited..." and "predicted..." in parallel.
that's impossible, because "excited" is a modifier describing tesla (NOT a verb), but "predicted" is a verb.

note that, in the correct answer, "excited" is correctly used as a modifier to describe mr. tesla.

I am not able to grasp this properly

In C : excited is a modifier
and predicted is also a modifier ?

but then sentence does not make any sense if we remove all modifiers.

but if predicted is verb then option C will be wrong for same reasons as D .

Can someone explain ?

[RonPurewal]

but if predicted is verb then option C will be wrong for same reasons as D .

^^ no.

choice (d) explicitly puts "excited" and "predicted" into a parallel structure:
excited... and predicted...

choice (c) does no such thing.
the parts directly before and after "nikola tesla" are modifiers. if they are removed, you're left with the core of the sentence, which is "nikola tesla predicted..."