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(A) 'to do it' is incorrect
(B) 'might have fled from Athens' changes meaning of sentence. 'to do it' is incorrect
(C) After he was sentenced to death, Socrates could have fled from Athens, but he refused to do so.
(D) Awkward sentence
(E) Meaning of sentence changed

C is the best choice. Sentence is not disjointed. 'he' refers to Socrates and 'to do so' is correct.
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(A) Socrates could have fled from Athens after he was sentenced to death, but he refused to do it. --it can point to death and fled.
(B) After he was sentenced to death, Socrates might have fled from Athens, but he refused to do it. -- might have means , there is no surety whether he could have fled or not-- meaning distorted
(C) After he was sentenced to death, Socrates could have fled from Athens, but he refused to do so. -- gramatically perfect and events are in order
(D) Refusing to flee from Athens, Socrates could have done so after he was sentenced to death. -- Tenses mismatch between both the events and events are not in correct order
(E) ]Socrates could have fled from Athens but refused to after he was sentenced to death.--Meaning changed,verb missing after refused to
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Socrates could have fled from Athens after he was sentenced to death, but he refused to do it.

(A) Socrates could have fled from Athens after he was sentenced to death, but he refused to do it.
(B) After he was sentenced to death, Socrates might have fled from Athens, but he refused to do it.
(C) After he was sentenced to death, Socrates could have fled from Athens, but he refused to do so.
(D) Refusing to flee from Athens, Socrates could have done so after he was sentenced to death.
Awkward construction. Change in meaning
(E) Socrates could have fled from Athens but refused to after he was sentenced to death.[/quote]

IMO C
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(C) : CORRECT

(A) : Do it - not preferred + First condemned then escape

(B) : Do so is preferred

(D) : Wrong order

(E) : Same as (D) and (A)
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Socrates could have fled from Athens after he was sentenced to death, but he refused to do it.

(A) Socrates could have fled from Athens after he was sentenced to death, but he refused to do it.
(B) After he was sentenced to death, Socrates might have fled from Athens, but he refused to do it.
(C) After he was sentenced to death, Socrates could have fled from Athens, but he refused to do so.
(D) Refusing to flee from Athens, Socrates could have done so after he was sentenced to death.
Awkward construction. Change in meaning
(E) Socrates could have fled from Athens but refused to after he was sentenced to death.

IMO C[/quote]

what's error in option E can u elaborate
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Socrates could have fled from Athens after he was sentenced to death, but he refused to do it.

(A) Socrates could have fled from Athens after he was sentenced to death, but he refused to do it.
(B) After he was sentenced to death, Socrates might have fled from Athens, but he refused to do it.
(C) After he was sentenced to death, Socrates could have fled from Athens, but he refused to do so.
(D) Refusing to flee from Athens, Socrates could have done so after he was sentenced to death.
Awkward construction. Change in meaning
(E) Socrates could have fled from Athens but refused to after he was sentenced to death.

IMO C

what's error in option E can u elaborate[/quote]

(E) Socrates could have fled from Athens but refused to after he was sentenced to death.
1. Incomplete information
refused to < DO WHAT>?

2. I expect verb after to , where is it?
to after xyz seems grammatically wrong.
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(A) Socrates could have fled from Athens
after he was sentenced to death,
but he refused to do it ("It" refer to Noun ambiguity, socrates or athens)

(B) After he was sentenced to death,
Socrates might have fled from Athens,
but he refused to do it ("It" refer to Noun ambiguity, socrates or athens)

(C) After he was sentenced to death,
Socrates could have fled from Athens,
but he refused to do so. ("So" is a adverb, modify verb "fled") Correct

(D) Refusing to flee from Athens,
Socrates could have done so
after he was sentenced to death.
Wrong: Flee - present tense, refusing - present participle, done so ?? what - meaning ambiguity,

(E) Socrates could have fled from Athens
but refused to
after he was sentenced to death - Meaning error - wrong
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