Question

1 Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her (1)as gently as possible the news of her husbands death.

Which is the BEST revision of Sentence (1)?

A) Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

B) Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her, as gently as possible, the news, of her husband's death.

C) Knowing that Mrs. Mallard, was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

D) Knowing that Mrs. Mallard was afflicted with a heart trouble, great care was taken to break to her as gently as possible the news of her husband's death.

Answer 1

probably C

Answer 2

@Gdeinward @justjm @NarutoandSasuke

Answer 3

Divide the sentence into clauses and then decide if you need stop/go punctuation.
C is wrong because 'was afflicted with a heart trouble' cannot be used as nonrestrictive clause.

The whole entire 'knowing that....heart trouble' is a dependent clause. Try again.

Also, the 'as gently as possible' is a nonrestrictive clause.

Answer 4

In order for C to be right, you need to have defined the modifier, or it should've said

who was afflicted with a heart trouble...

Answer 5

D

Answer 6

It isn't D, note that I said the 'as gently as possible' is a nonrestrictive clause. You have to put commas around it.

Answer 7

no XD it isn't A. There needs to be a comma after the dependent clause

Answer 8

B