Please experts need your advise in this question.

[saurabhkamal1981]

Hi,

I recently purchased "Manhattan SC fourth edition guide 8". I was going through chapter 6, modifiers, and came across a question in the chapter's exercise and saw a similar question in the O.G-12. I have a confusion in both questions and will really appreciate if you solve my confusion.

First one is from "SC 4th edition" :-

Q11. Based on the recent decline in enrollment, the admissions office decided to reevalute its recruitment strategies.

As given in the book, this is incorrect. The right answer is :-

Because of the recent decline in enrollment, the admissions office decided to reevalute its recruitment strategies.

My question is :- "Based" is a noun modifier (Adjective) Modifying a noun (admissions office) ?

I am confused because the page no. 84 of chapter 6 (Modifiers)
says noun modifiers (past participle or adjective) modifies nouns.

Please advise i am very much confused.

Second, in the O.G-12 i came across a similar question.

[mschwrtz]

I have removed your OG example, because we don't allow those here. Please read the forum guidelines.

About this question:

Based on the recent decline in enrollment, the admissions office decided to reevalute its recruitment strategies.

The problem is not simply that based on is a noun modifier, it is that based on here should (according to grammar, not sense) modify the subject of the main clause: the admissions office. But the admissions office is not really based on the recent decline in enrollment.

Same story with the excised example, by the way. Note that the correct answers in both cases correctly attribute action to the subject of the main clause.