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The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces during the felicitation ceremony.


(A) The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces during the felicitation ceremony.

(B) The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier during the felicitation ceremony who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces.

(C) During the felicitation ceremony, the war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces.

(D) During the felicitation ceremony, the war veteran remembered meeting a soldier’s mother whom the enemy forces had brutally tortured.

(E) The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a solider during his felicitation ceremony, a soldier who had been brutally tortured by the enemy forces.
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A & B can be eliminated because of misplaced modifier "during the felicitation ceremony"
E is weird
Between C & D - should not be "tortured brutally"; it should be "brutally tortured ". also modifier in C is passive
best answer D
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I am confused between choice C and D.

In choice D, whom has been used for soldier, however there is no soldier in the sentence, rather its soldier's mother, that ways I think its wrong.

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The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces during the felicitation ceremony.


(A) The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces during the felicitation ceremony.

(B) The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier during the felicitation ceremony who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces.

(C) During the felicitation ceremony, the war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces.

(D) During the felicitation ceremony, the war veteran remembered meeting a soldier’s mother whom the enemy forces had brutally tortured.

(E) The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a solider during his felicitation ceremony, a soldier who had been brutally tortured by the enemy forces.
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Answer has to be C. Who was tortuted? Mother or the Soldier, logically it is the solider who was tortured. When was the brutal attack done? During the felicitation ceremony? No, thats illogical. Thus asking these two questions can help us arrive at the right answer- Option C.
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(C) for me. Time taken 01:19.

(A) "tortured brutally by the enemy forces during the felicitation ceremony"
What kind of ceremony was it! This surely does not seem to be the intended meaning.

(B) "meeting the mother of a soldier during the felicitation ceremony who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces."
Why did some have to torture the poor mother? Is it from a plot of Taken 4 ? Even Liam Neeson won't do that. So, this certainly doesn't look like the correct choice either due to absurd meaning that it imparts. This would have been correct if "who had been tortured brutally" was placed after "soldier". It's current placement is abhorrible.

(C) This is void of any non-sensical meaning. Modifications and referents are clear. Correct choice in my opinion.

(D) "meeting a soldier’s mother whom the enemy forces had brutally tortured."
Again the poor mother is being tortured in this choice. That's not what the sentence wants to impart in my opinion.

(E) Though there ain't any modifications error in this choice, and the appositive phrase in the end ("a soldier who had been...") is correct, the usage of "his" in "during his felicitation ceremony" makes it slightly ambiguous with respect to whose felicitation is it really underway? Soldier's? Or the veteran's? (C) is void of any such meaning issues and thus the correct choice in my opinion.
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The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces during the felicitation ceremony.


(A) The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces during the felicitation ceremony.

(B) The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier during the felicitation ceremony who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces.

(C) During the felicitation ceremony, the war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a soldier who had been tortured brutally by the enemy forces.

(D) During the felicitation ceremony, the war veteran remembered meeting a soldier’s mother whom the enemy forces had brutally tortured.

(E) The war veteran remembered meeting the mother of a solider during his felicitation ceremony, a soldier who had been brutally tortured by the enemy forces.
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Answer: C

(A) The placement of the phrase during the felicitation ceremony makes it appear as if the soldier was tortured during the ceremony itself, which is absurd.

(B) The relative clause who had been tortured should come after soldier and not ceremony.

(C) The correct answer.

(D) Distorts the meaning by suggesting that the soldier’s mother was tortured.

(E) The his is ambiguous as we don’t know whether it refers to the soldier or to the war veteran. The use of the appositive a soldier after the comma would only be correct if the earlier clause were to end with soldier which it does not.
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