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When a timamollo or candle wife, a Pedi chief's bride, arrives at the royal house, all the fires in the village are doused and re-lit directly from her candle.A. When a timamollo or candle wife, a Pedi chief's bride, arrives at the royal house, all the fires in the village are doused and re-lit directly from her candle.
CorrectB. When
the bride of a Pedi chief, a timamollo or candle wife, arrives at the royal house, all the fires in the village are doused and re-lit directly from her candle.
We normally have a term and the noun modifier will describe the term set of in commas. This order is reversed here.C. When a timamollo,
a Pedi chief's candle wife, arrives at the royal house, all the fires in the village are doused and re-lit directly from her candle.
So Pedi chief has a lot of other wives and timamollo is the candle wife?D. When a timamollo or candle wife arrives at the royal house, all the fires in the village are doused and re-lit directly from the Pedi chief's bride.
Horrible change in meaning. This tells us that the Pedi chief's bride and tinamollo or candle wife are 2 separate people. E. When a timamollo or a Pedi chief's candle wife, arrives at the royal house, all the fires in the village are doused and re-lit directly from her candle.
So Pedi chief has a lot of other wives and timamollo is the candle wife? Your explanation that implicates B as a wrong answer is very valid.
Option A, the correct option, is similar to saying "When Nnamdi, a handsome boy, steps into the room, everyone stares". As per your explanation, which is correct, "Nnamdi is the term and "a handsome boy" modifies it.
But option B turns it around and says instead "When a handsome boy, Nnamdi, steps into the room, everyone stares". This is ambiguous and unclear.
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