Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.(A) Müller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as
(B) Müller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as
(C) Müller's career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
(D) Müller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
(E) the career of Müller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of

(B) Muller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as

Explanation:

Participial phrases, which acts as opening modifiers, should be followed by the noun they are modifying. This mistake is obvious in A and D.

In option C, “being” is used as an unfitting and awkward modifier which is not correct in the GMAT (however other uses of “being” is allowable).

Option E commits an error of verb tenses which is demonstrated in the tip below.

When a perfect tense is being used, it is appropriate to picture a tense timeline. We are aware that the past perfect must have happened for a time before the simple past (which has to be present in the sentence) and present perfect ought to have started prior to the simple present.

question: write a report analyzing through articles of confederation.

answer: the articles of confederation the united states constitution was written when the people feared strong government the new nation needed some kind of organization to hold states together to them fend off future attacks and make a stronger support system through the states and people the states bonded through a friendship that best served as a defense against a invasion and states were not allowed to use taxes as a way to discourage treaties, and states were extremely limited in their dealings with foreign nations the strengths were that the congress has the highest power in the nation because of   fear of monarchy congress had the sole power to declare war and assign treaties disputes between states and territorial issues were to be brought to congress and weaknesses were the lack of power given to congress the articles gave congress the power to pass laws but no power to enforce those laws if a state did not support a federal law that state could simply ignore it congress had no power to levy taxes or regulate trade.

explanation: so like every argument they have strengths and weaknesses but in this case there were more weaknesses but they managed o get through it and make an agreement

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