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To read of Abigail Adam's lengthy separation from her family, her difficult travels, and her constant battles with illness is to feel intensely how harsh life was even for the so-called aristocracy of Revolutionary times.
(A) To read of
(B) Reading about
(C) Having read about
(D) Once one reads of
(E) To have read of
Choice AThe sentence uses simple present tense structure :-
To read X(subject)
is(verb)
to feel Y(object)
Is is the main verb.
The subject
To read and the object
to feel are in the infinitive form
(Infinitive is a verbal consisting of the word to plus a verb [in simplest form] and acts as a Noun, adjective, or adverb).
The Infinitive form of both subject and object makes the subject phrase and the object phrase parallel to each other.
A) Sentence is correct as written.
B) INCORRECT :- Here the subject used in gerund form
Reading, which is not parallel with object (which is an infinitive).
C) INCORRECT :- Awkward subject phrase
Having readD) INCORRECT :- Here
reads acts as verb and thus the sentence contains two verbs
reads and
is with any conjunction. The usage of
once is confusing.
E) INCORRECT :- Redundant
have makes the subject wordy.
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