Question

Excerpt from: Norse Mythology Part D Kate McConnaughey (34) And in a hall far brighter than Woden’s Valhalla, the brave warriors and those who were good will be gathered forever. Read the passage. Look at the underlined section marked number (34). There may be a mistake in the way the sentence is written. If you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. If there is no mistake, choose ‘Correct as is.’ A) Correct as is B) And in a hall far brighter than Woden’s Valhalla, the brave and good will be gathered forever. C) And in a hall far brighter than Woden’s Valhalla, the brave and good ones will be gathered forever. D) And in a hall far brighter than Woden’s Valhalla, those who are brave and the good will be gathered forever.

Answer 1

B) And in a hall far brighter than Woden’s Valhalla, the brave and good will be gathered forever.

 

Answer “B” is correct because the way the sentence originally appears is with an error in parallelism.  For a sentence to be parallel, it should have list items (note that a list/series is two or more items) appear with same/similar grammatical elements.  The original—“brave warriors and those who were good—consists of an adjective|noun (brave|warriors) followed by and adjective|pronoun|verb|adjective (thoses|who|were|good), which is thus not paralle.  To correct this, as well as make this more concise, you can just use adjectives—“brave” and “good”—and that will make this sentence’s list parallel.   

Answer 2

Answer:

B) And in a hall far brighter than Woden’s Valhalla, the brave and good will be gathered forever.

Explanation:

Option B is the most clear and most succinct revision for this sentence. "The brave and the good" is an expression that demonstrates the kinds of individuals will's identity invited into Valhalla.

There shouldn't be a "ones" added to good, since it is now suggested that those being invited are people.