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Of all the record companies involved in early jazz, the three most prominent were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh.

A. Of all the record companies involved in early jazz, the three most prominent were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh.

B. Three most prominent record companies of all the ones that were involved in early jazz were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh.

C. Columbia, Victor, and OKeh were, of all the record companies involved in early jazz, the three of them that were most prominent.

D. Columbia, Victor, and OKeh were three most prominent of all the record companies involved in early jazz.

E. Out of all the record companies that were involved in early jazz, three of them that were the most prominent were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh.

P.S.- Differences are subtle but how can most of the choices be wrong based on construction and passive.

sagarock wrote:Of all the record companies involved in early jazz, the three most prominent were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh.

A. Of all the record companies involved in early jazz, the three most prominent were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh.

B. Three most prominent record companies of all the ones that were involved in early jazz were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh.

C. Columbia, Victor, and OKeh were, of all the record companies involved in early jazz, the three of them that were most prominent.

D. Columbia, Victor, and OKeh were three most prominent of all the record companies involved in early jazz.

E. Out of all the record companies that were involved in early jazz, three of them that were the most prominent were Columbia, Victor, and OKeh.

P.S.- Differences are subtle but how can most of the choices be wrong based on construction and passive.

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