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A multiple choice question

01.00 01u00A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as 01i00The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn02i00 were published, 02u00reveals that Twain provided financial assistance to one of the first Black students at Yale Law School.02br
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00(A) A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year as 01i00The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn02i00 were published,02br
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00(B) A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year of publication as 01i00The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn02i00,02br
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00(C) A letter by Mark Twain, written in the same year that 01i00The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn02i00 was published,02br
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00(D) Mark Twain wrote a letter in the same year as he published 01i00The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn02i00 that02br
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00(E) Mark Twain wrote a letter in the same year of publication as 01i00The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn02i00 that02br
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00Please give me the right answer. 0-
  

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0Well, A is the same as the original sentence, B sounds OK, C & D don't sound right (to me at least), E sounds OK too but the structure of the original sentence corresponds more to B.02br
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00 A letter by Mark Twain, written 01b00in the year when02b00 01i00The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn02i00 was published,0-
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01cite10Marius Hancu12cite10C, or: 12br
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10 A letter by Mark Twain, written 11b10in the year when12b10 11i10The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn12i10 was published,12br
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10Right you are, Marius. The verb has to be in
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0Oh yes, I hadn't paid attention to the person of the verb...0-
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0 The official answer is C. I thought the corrcet answer was B but now I can see my mistake. But I am not confortable with THAT in option C where it says 01i00"same year 01b00that 02b00The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published". 02i00Any help!!!02br
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0 01b00 00pieanne02b00 why did you choose B for the first time. I did so because I thought using 01b00was published02b00 would be repetitive. Also what do you mean by person of the verb here. Which verb are you talking about.02br
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01cite10Grammarian-bot12cite10The official answer is C. I thought the corrcet answer was B but now I can see my mistake. But I am not confortable with THAT in option C where it says 11i10"same year 11b10that 12b10The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn was published". 12i10Any help!!!12br
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01cite10Grammarian-bot12cite11b10 10pieanne12b10 why did you choose B for the first time. I did so because I thought using 11b10was published12b10 would be repetitive. Also what do you mean by person of the verb here. Which verb are you talking about.12br
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