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by swdatta » Thu Nov 22, 2007 11:25 am
Sentence Correction question from K800

Having forfeited her severance package in order to keep the rights to her intellectual property, it was believed by the employee that she had won a moral victory.

A) it was believed by the employee that she had won a moral victory
B) she believed that she had won a moral victory.
C) the employee believed that she had won a moral victory
D) the employee believed her moral victory to have been won
E) the employee believed that the moral victory was won

OA C

The explanation for the question says that [spoiler]since the modifier begins with 'Having', the verb needs "had been". Why is "had been" need[spoiler][/spoiler]

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by ranji » Thu Nov 22, 2007 8:01 pm
I am not sure whether there is 'had been' in any of the choices.

But, the first clause should modify 'the employee'.

Hence A and B are wrong.

since 'believed' happened after 'moral victory is won', the 'won' should be in past perfect tense [had won]

D) to have been won - awkward
E) was won - not appropriate

C) correct [modifier is correct, had won says that won happened before believed]

makes sense?
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by swdatta » Thu Nov 22, 2007 10:01 pm
That makes sense. Thanks

I could not find 'had been' in the answer choice either so thought i ask the question.
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by BTGmoderatorRO » Sat Jan 27, 2018 4:36 am
option A.
First of all, we must make sure our answer is in active form and not in passive form. So we had to choose an answer in the active form is which option is not one.Therefore, this option is wrong.

Option B.
This option suffers the same fate as option A above because the option is not constructed in an active form.Therefore, this option is incorrect.

Option C.
what did the employee believe? This is a straight answer and well-constructed sentence, and it follows proper parallelism thus, this is the correct answer.

Option D.
it would be improper for her moral victory to be won rather but won her moral victory instead.
Sentence construction is vital here, thus this option is incorrect.
Option E.
This option suffers the same fate as option D above.
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