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In the early 1900s, Emma Goldman emerged as a highly controversial radical speaker, and independents as well as communists had flocked to her speaking engagements.

A. independents as well as communists had flocked to her speaking engagements

B. there were independents who flocked to her speaking engagements as well as communists

C. independents as well as communists flocked to her speaking engagements

D. the engagements where she spoke were attended by independents as well as communists

E. the engagements where she spoke were attended by both independents and communists
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In the early 1900s, Emma Goldman emerged as a highly controversial rad 02 Apr 2022, 23:38
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In the early 1900s, Emma Goldman emerged as a highly controversial radical speaker, and independents as well as communists had flocked to her speaking engagements.

A. independents as well as communists had flocked to her speaking engagements

B. there were independents who flocked to her speaking engagements as well as communists

C. independents as well as communists flocked to her speaking engagements

D. the engagements where she spoke were attended by independents as well as communists

E. the engagements where she spoke were attended by both independents and communists

I was left with A & C I think A is the answer. Two events occurred in the past with a time gap and both have ended in the past. So, one event takes simple past and the other takes past perfect( had+ past participle).
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parallelism --> emerged & flocked

In the early 1900s, Emma Goldman emerged as a highly controversial radical speaker, and independents as well as communists had flocked to her speaking engagements.

A. independents as well as communists had flocked to her speaking engagements

B. there were independents who flocked to her speaking engagements as well as communists

C. independents as well as communists flocked to her speaking engagements

D. the engagements where she spoke were attended by independents as well as communists

E. the engagements where she spoke were attended by both independents and communists

1- Had flocked wrong
2- absurd construction
3- Perfect
4- absurd
5- wrong parallelism
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It is a medium-level SC question, reasonably straightforward.
One should not take more time than the time taken for an average answer.

The sentence tells us a fact that someone emerged as a highly controversial speaker and that her speeches were attended by the two groups X and Y.

Because it tells us a piece of information it should be written in simple tense. Simple past tense should make more sense here in this sentence.


A. "had flocked" is wrong there is no sequencing of events is intended by the author of the sentence.

B. sentence can not end with "as well as communists" making no sense.

C. independents, as well as communists, flocked to her speaking engagements "correct answer"

D. "the engagements where" engagement is not a place

E. "the engagements where" engagement is not a place
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