Sentence Completion with Participle Phrases

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2. Having seen photographs of the excavation area, ----.

A) I was disgusted by what I saw and had no desire to go there any more
B) everybody looked for a better place where they could see the photographs
C) the city tries to attract as many tourists as possible
D) they began quarrelling how to divide them among the share holders
E) they are lying face downwards in a sea of mud

Solvi · Accepted Answer

Hi Kader, let's solve this grammar question together. We need to complete the sentence starting with an introductory phrase. The sentence begins with 'Having seen photographs of the excavation area'. This is a perfect participle phrase. In English grammar, a participle phrase like this must modify the subject of the main clause. This means the person or entity who 'saw the photographs' must be the subject that follows the comma. Let's look at option A. It says, 'I was disgusted by what I saw'. Here, 'I' is the subject. It is logical that 'I' saw the photographs and then felt disgusted. In option B, the subject is 'everybody'. While 'everybody' could see photographs, the logic of looking for a place to see them *after* already having seen them is contradictory.

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