The Jamaican authorities flew officers from Scotland Yard to Kingston, Jamaica, to find Yardies and recruit them to help them make contact with drug dealers who were active across the country.
(A) recruit them to help them make contact with drug dealers who were active across the country
(B) recruit them to help the authorities make contact with drug dealers who were active across the country
(C) recruiting them to help the authorities make contact with drug dealers who were active across the country
(D) recruited them to help the officers make contact with drug dealers that were active across the country
(E) recruit them and help the officers making contact with drug dealers who were active across the country
IMO B
it is meaning based question here to find Yardies and (to) recruit are parallel.
(A) recruit
them to help
them make contact with drug dealers who were active across the country--> use of them is ambiguous is it referring to the officers or the Jamaican authorities
(B) recruit them to help the authorities make contact with drug dealers who were active across the country--> Correct
them is referring only to Yardies
(C) recruiting them to help the authorities make contact with drug dealers who were active across the country--> to find and recruiting. not parallel
(D) recruited
them to help the officers make contact with drug dealers
that were active across the country--> is them referring to Yardies or officers ?
(E) recruit them and help the officers making contact with drug dealers who were active across the country-->
Meaning is distorted. it says helped the officers making contact not helped in making contact