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After her admission to the bar, Margaret, herself a childless attorney's only daughter , specialized in adoption and family law.
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B - Margaret herself, a childless attorney's only daughter
C - Margaret, herself the childless and only daughter of an attorney
D - Margaret, herself, only a daughter of a childless attorney

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After her admission to the bar, Margaret, herself a 04 Aug 2004, 11:42
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A is best to me
A puts the right emphasis on the fact that Margareth specialized in adoption while she herself was the adopted daughter of a childless attorney.
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After her admission to the bar, Margaret, herself a childless attorney's only daughter , specialized in adoption and family law.
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B - Margaret herself, a childless attorney's only daughter
C - Margaret, herself the childless and only daughter of an attorney
D - Margaret, herself, only a daughter of a childless attorney

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childless can not refer to her mother/father as Margaret being their daughter they have a child. They are not childless.

So, only C seems to make this distinction although it is not the most attractive option here..
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Yes, I know there is a kind of contradiction but I thought that the attorney not having any child means that they adopted Margareth as their daughter... Well, yes, A must be wrong but C as you said is not very good either :(
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my bet would be on A . I would love that sentence A in case the word 'herself' is removed from it.

Anyway, the argument childless and having a daughter doesnt seem to make much confusion.

Looking at the context of the sentence, its obvious that the childless attroney has adopted Margret. the stress is on the fact that, she specialised in something which she has underwent in her life. So whats the confusion ?
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C is clear, but doesn't sound gramatically right. A is right, if only we critically examine this.

if we consider this a CR, then A is right :)
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C is the OA. Explanation given - The original sentence is ambiguous. As written, it seems to imply that Margaret was the daughter of a childless attorney - a logical contradiction. Only C clears the ambiguity.



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