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Finally reaching a decision on an issue that has long been politically charged in the Pacific Northwest, politicians decided to postpone by at least five years an ambitious plan to protect wild salmon and other endangered fish, instead of which they proposed a series of smaller steps, by which they intend to protect the fish.
A. politicians decided to postpone by at least five years an ambitious plan to protect wild salmon and other endangered fish, instead of which they proposed a series of smaller steps, by which they intend B. politicians decided to postpone by at least five years an ambitious plan to protect wild salmon and other endangered fish, proposing instead a series of smaller steps intended C. politicians decided to postpone by at least five years an ambitious plan for protecting wild salmon and other endangered fish, and instead they proposed a series of smaller steps, intending D. an ambitious plan to protect wild salmon and other endangered fish was postponed by politicians, who instead proposed a series of smaller steps, intending E. an ambitious plan to protect wild salmon and other endangered fish has been postponed by politicians, proposing instead a series of smaller steps intended
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Proposing is referring to the subject politicians in the clause "politicians decided to postpone by at least five years an ambitious plan to protect wild salmon and other endangered fish".
intending refers to STEPS, steps were INTENDED by politicians... they didn't intend anything themselves -> need passive form here.
proposing refers to POLITICIANS and is a part of the modifier to 'politicians'
the answer should be B
the example above is hypothetically changed to see which choice b/w B and C is better.
did you pick C initially? C has problem with GERUND 'for proposing', which is not a modifier, but a part of indep. clause... therefore can't be used as participle. don't mix those two
finally... with C... we should have BUT and not AND, because of the constrast of ideas "INSTEAD" -> they decided to postpone, BUT proposed something else
with AND it would sound like this: they decided to postpone and sent the fish to chill on its own.
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