Which is the appropriate sentence?
"As the manager won't admit to being at fault himself,....."
A) he had been obliged to confess too
B) the trial period wouldn't have ended so suddenly
C) others received the blame for it
D) we would have been equally to blame
E) he's trying to put the on his assistants
I picked C but the answer was E. I do not understand why that is.
Thanks in advance.
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" A) he had been obliged to confess too B) the trial period wouldn't have ended so suddenly C) others received the blame for it The tense 'won't admit' does not fit with the past tense 'received'. " D) we would have been equally to blame E) he's trying to put the blame on his assistants <<< You omitted a word. put the blame on is an idiomatic way of saying 'blame' E is correct.
- " A) he had been obliged to confess too B) the trial period wouldn't have ended so suddenly C) others received the blame for it The tense 'won't admit' does not fit with the past tense 'received'.
- " D) we would have been equally to blame E) he's trying to put the blame on his assistants <<< You omitted a word.
- put the blame on is an idiomatic way of saying 'blame' E is correct.
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"As the manager won't admit to being at fault himself,....."
A) he had been obliged to confess too
B) the trial period wouldn't have ended so suddenly
C) others received the blame for it The tense 'won't admit' does not fit with the past tense 'received'. You'd need to say eg "As the manager didn't admit or wouldn't admit to being at fault himself,...
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