(A) In a period of time when women typically have
(B) During a time in which typically women have
(C) Typically, during a time when women
(D) At a time when women typically
(E) Typically in a time in which women
Solution:
Tenses + Parallelism
A and B: The present tense verb “have” does not match the past tense of the non-underlined verb “became”.
C and E: It is unclear what is modified by the adverb “typically”. “Typically” seems to be incorrectly modifying the verb “became”, but the intended meaning of the sentence is not that “Mary Baker Eddy typically became a distinguished writer”. The intended meaning is quite opposite: that, when Mary became a distinguished writer, women typically had a narrow range of choices.
D: Conveys the intended meaningà When women typically had a narrow range of choices, Mary Baker became a distinguished writer…”
“had…became…” is parallel. D is the best choice.
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