Parts of a sentence are given below in jumbled order. Arrange the parts in the correct order to form a meaningful sentence. Founding father / is / of / New Historicism / Greenbalt / considered / the.

Correct — B. The passive is considered takes its complement immediately after it: X is considered the founding father. Nothing may sit between the verb and that noun phrase.

The fragment of New Historicism is a postmodifier of 'founding father' and travels with it — 'the founding father of New Historicism'.

That leaves Greenbalt as the only fragment able to be the subject, giving option (b): 'Greenbalt is considered the founding father of New Historicism.'

Why the others are wrong

• (a)
  Greenbelt is the founding father of New Historicism considered. — Option (a) strands considered at the very end, after the complement it is supposed to introduce, and it prints the name as Greenbelt rather than the paper's Greenbalt.
• (c)
  The founding father of New Historicism is considered Greenbalt. — Option (c) reverses the predication — 'The founding father of New Historicism is considered Greenbalt' makes the role the subject and the person the complement, which is not how consider is used.
• (d)
  The founding father is considered Greenbalt of New Historicism. — Option (d) tears of New Historicism away from 'founding father' and parks it after the name, so the phrase now modifies Greenbalt and the sentence claims something else.

This is a word-order item dressed as a jumble: the fragments are listed, but the options are whole sentences, so you are checking four candidates rather than building one.

Two structures decide it. Consider in the passive takes an object complement — someone is considered something — and that complement follows the verb directly.

A prepositional phrase such as of New Historicism attaches to the noun it modifies and moves with it. Detach it and the sentence changes what it claims.

Key facts

• In the passive of consider, the complement follows the verb: X is considered Y.
• A prepositional phrase beginning with of modifies the noun standing next to it.
• New Historicism is a school of literary criticism associated with Stephen Greenblatt.

Common traps

• Choosing the sentence that sounds most formal instead of testing the structure.
• Accepting an order because every fragment is present — a jumble can use all the parts and still be wrong.
• Reading the spelling difference in option (a) as the point of the question.

No directly related past PYQ was found.