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[Berkeergi]

The question is :

[h=1]Mary Sanders was a successful artist.Before she died, - - - - .

You need to fill the blank.


A) she should do practice
B) she had better take photos
C) she has won several awards
D) she could draw many pictures





Which answer is right ?



Thank You.[/h]

 

[bhaisahab]

None of them is natural.

 

[Berkeergi]

None of them is natural.

Thank You For Your Reply

They asked us this in high school placement exam today.

And I picked C

But they told that true answer is D

From that view which is better answer ?

 

[MikeNewYork]

I don't like any of them, but D is at least grammatical. C is not grammatical.

 

[Berkeergi]

What does answer seems if we look to the meaning.

I thought the C is more compatible with that sentence but if you say so...

 

[emsr2d2]

C is incorrect because of the word "has".

"Before she died, she won several awards" would have been correct.

 

[MikeNewYork]

C has the wrong verb tense. C would work with "had won" and even with just "won".

 

[White Hat]

Even these days a whole bunch of English textbooks offered to high school students in my country are full of errors. I just can't stand working with textbooks by non-native speakers. To be honest, the only answer that sounds reasonable here is D.

Before he died, he could not be with everybody everywhere at once. (by Scott H. Hendrix)

 

[Tdol]

D is the least worst option. It doesn't make for a particularly natural pair of sentences IMO, but it is, at least, grammatically possible.