After Nixon spent months trying to counter mounting bad press and pres

At first glance, "resignation" should be replaced with "he" and the sentence is currently in passive form, which - of course - is not always wrong. I see "instead of", so there's likely to a be an instead of/rather than split. So let's start eliminating.



"Instead of" can only put nouns in parallel. "Facing the impeaching process" is a gerund. "Resignation was..." is a clause and therefore contains a working verb.



Again, "instead of" can only put nouns in parallel and "resignation was..." is a clause.



Same problems as above and unnecessarily wordy, which is not usually an excuse I use to eliminate an answer choice.

Quote:

D. he chose to resign rather than face impeachment

I like the subject placed here after the comma. "Rather than" indicates preference and can put verbs in parallel.



"Chose resignation" or "being impeached" should be 'chose resignation instead of impeachment...'