Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that

Q- Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger


A. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman remembered that her father was very angry when she failed the fifth grade because she could see him shaking with anger this answer choice has misplaced modifier.. it seems that "she could see him shaking with anger" is the reason for her failure in fifth grade

B. Recounting a painful childhood experience, the woman recounted that her father was shaking with anger when she failed the fifth grade.
this option has redundancy.
I think the use of "when" is not correct also, because it implies that exactly at the time "she failed the fifth grade" her father was shaking.

C. Painfully, the woman remembered when she failed the fifth grade and when her father was shaking with anger.
painfully is adverb, it modifies how the act of remembering happened. while in the original sentence painful modifies the childhood experience.

D. The failure of the fifth grade and her father’s anger were painful for the woman recounting the experience.
I mistakenly chose this option because I was not careful about meaning principal!!! this option implies that X and Y were painful for woman. it completely distorts the original meaning.

E. The woman described her father’s shaking with anger when he learned that she had failed the fifth grade.
this option exactly indicates that the father's shaking was the result of knowing that her daughter had failed the fifth grade.


meaning is the sole tool we can rely on in hard questions!