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The answer is D.

There are two issues at play: Parallelism within a list and Modifiers

The intent of the sentence is to illustrate a list of things that Joan of Arc did.

Joan of Arc...
    turned the tide of English victories... and
    persuaded Charles to claim his throne.

Because the 1st item in the list is "turned", the last item must be "persuaded" but cannot be "pursuading"

The reason I can tell that the list is not
    liberating the city and
    persuading Charles
is that there is no answer that gives us a good grammatical structure for this list.

(C) would say "Joan turned the tide by liberating the city and persuading that the throne be claimed by Charles"
There is one problem: "persuading" should be followed by Charles ie. "persuading Charles to claim his throne."

(E) would say "Joan turned the tide by liberating the city and persuading that Charles should claim the throne"
This is no better than C. To be acceptable, it should say "persuading Charles to claim his throne."

Once we remove all answers that use "persuading", we are left with A, B and D.

(A) simplifies to "Joan...turned the tide of English victories...and she persuaded Charles to claim his throne"

A is grammatically fine, but "she" is redundant so stylistically A is not the best choice.

(B) simplifies to "Joan...turned the tide of English victories...and persuaded Charles...in claiming his throne"

B commits a modifier error. "perusade X to do Y" is correct. "persuade X in doing Y" is incorrect.

(D) simplifies to "Joan...turned the tide of English victories...and persuaded Charles to claim his throne". Perfect!
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D

B and D give correct parallelism, in B in claiming is not correct.
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This was very illustrative discussion, and I got the answer of my discussion.

Source OG, OA -D

Thanks a Ton.
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Gr8 explanation Rygaar,

I was a bit biased for B because of parallelism.
But your modifier error explanation made it clear.
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Hi,

I am finding difficulty in analysing this SC. Please provide the analysis for your selection.

If one of the choice were following: persuading Charles VII of france to claim is throne. What would you choose in this case?


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1)Parallism - "turned" and "persuaded" - so either B or D.
2) In claiming - unidiomatic (B) while "to claim" is idiomatic.



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