Harley1980 wrote:
The success of the first landing on the moon emboldened some scientists to claim that a Mars landing was imminent, vastly underestimating the difficulties entailed in such a feat..
A) The success of the first landing on the moon emboldened some scientists to claim that a Mars landing was imminent, vastly underestimating the difficulties entailed in such a feat.
emboldened should be closely linked with scucess as this was the reason for ubderestimating the difficulties of the Mars landing hence out
B) Scientists, in vastly underestimating the difficulties of a Mars landing, were emboldened by the first moon landing to claim that such a feat was imminent.
The comma after Scientists was unnecessary it makes the sentence akward and distorts the meaning
C) The first moon landing success emboldened some scientists to claim that a Mars landing was imminent, but the difficulties entailed in such a feat were underestimated
The comma before but isn't necessary since these are deppendent clauses they shouldn't be seperated with comma
D) Vastly underestimating the difficulties entailed in a Mars landing, scientists were emboldened by the moon landing to make such claims.
This isn't the intended meaning this tell us that the difficulties of the Mars mission embolded the scientist which is infact false
E) Emboldened by the success of the first moon landing, some scientists claimed that a Mars landing was imminent, vastly underestimating the difficulties such a feat entails
This is the intende meaning and the only option left so this should be the requisite answer
Therefore IMO E