Sentence Correction

The outspoken abolitionist senator Charles Sumner, after delivering a speech on the senate floor, was accosted by the Southerner Preston Brooks, who, outraged by Sumner’s words, bludgeoned the senator with a gutta-percha cane, which Brooks was able to do with impunity, due to a tradition holding that the laws of the United States did not obtain on the senate floor.

A) gutta-percha cane, which Brooks was able to do with impunity, due to a tradition holding that
B) gutta-percha cane, which Brooks carried out with impunity, owing to a tradition holding that
C) gutta-percha cane and was able to do this with impunity, owing to a tradition that held that
D) gutta-percha cane, being able to do so with impunity, based on a tradition that held that
E) gutta-percha cane, an action Brooks carried out with impunity, owing to a tradition that held that



OA E

Source: Magoosh