Known as the Australian Eleanor Roosevelt, Jessie Street
lived a life in privilege while at the same time devoting her efforts to working for the rights of the disenfranchised, including workers, women, refugees, and Aborigines.
A. lived a life in privilege while at the same time devoting
B. lived a life of privilege while simultaneously she devoted
C. lived a life of privilege while devoting
D. lived a life in privilege and devoting at the same time
E. lived a life of privilege and wealth while at the same time devoted
The correct idiom is a life of privilege and not life in privilege. Therefore, A and D are out.
B is essentially wrong because of the redundancy of 'while 'and 'simultaneously. While is not used to mark a contrast a there is no need for the contrast here. '
In E, the addition of wealth is not given in the original and hence is unnecessary. When we use 'while' as conjunction, we must put a subject also in order to ensure that the second is a clause rather than a second predicate. Otherwise, the structure will be unparallel with an IC on one side and predicate on the other side.
C is good, as it presents 'devoting' as a modifier modifying Jesse.
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