SC: Genral Wolfe

General Wolfe answered the French sentry in French, and thus the young officer tragically mistook the enemy ship as one of his own, and let Wolfe and his men slip past him to victory at Quebec.

A as one of his own, and let Wolfe
B as his own, and let Wolfe
C for one of his own, leaving Wolfe
D for one of his own, and let Wolfe
E to be his own, leaving Wolfe


OA : D

The correct answer is D. The correct idiom is mistake X for Y. Thus, we can eliminate A and B for the incorrect mistake X as Y. E uses the incorrect mistake X to be Y, and therefore should also be discarded. As well, both B and E say his own, which incorrectly suggests the ship belonged to the French officer. Additionally, both C and E inappropriately use leaving rather than and let, making the rest of the sentence ungrammatical

OA : D

The correct answer is D. The correct idiom is mistake X for Y. Thus, we can eliminate A and B for the incorrect mistake X as Y. E uses the incorrect mistake X to be Y, and therefore should also be discarded. As well, both B and E say his own, which incorrectly suggests the ship belonged to the French officer. Additionally, both C and E inappropriately use leaving rather than and let, making the rest of the sentence ungrammatical

I don't see anything wrong with C. why can't a participle "leaving" be used here ? I have seen several examples that use "ing" to connect a preceding clause with the latter portion of the SC.

Because " the young officer tragically mistook the enemy ship as one of his own", Wolfe and his men slip past him to victory

I think "leaving" can be used to connect the two clauses.......thoughts??

I'm pretty positive that it's a wrong sentence. Mirror pronoun (himself)should be used in the last non underlined part of the sentence. Also, if one reads the sentence carefully, one will find that the sentry made only one mistake, that is mistaking Wolfe for a french. Seeing a parallelism in "and" is not right, since the two actions are not parallel. I do believe that C is better than D, although it still has the mirror pronoun issue (common to all choices). bhatigp, what is the source of this question?

General Wolfe answered the French sentry in French, and thus the young officer tragically mistook the enemy ship as one of his own, and let Wolfe and his men slip past him to victory at Quebec.

A as one of his own, and let Wolfe
B as his own, and let Wolfe
C for one of his own, leaving Wolfe ->leaving to is wrong
D for one of his own, and let Wolfe -> PERFECT
E to be his own, leaving Wolfe