DearIanStewart andRonPurewal ,
I would be grateful if you could help better understand the problem with choice A. The OE rules out choice A for the reason that the modifier “who defeated…” is ambiguous because it may refer to Marcus Kann or Horatio Caro or both. However, I didn’t have such problem while reading it and naturally associated the modifier with Horatio Caro because a noun modifier usually modifies what is closest (especially when there is no a noun phrase), or else the sentence
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I would be grateful if you could help better understand the problem with choice A. The OE rules out choice A for the reason that the modifier “who defeated…” is ambiguous because it may refer to Marcus Kann or Horatio Caro or both. However, I didn’t have such problem while reading it and naturally associated the modifier with Horatio Caro because a noun modifier usually modifies what is closest (especially when there is no a noun phrase), or else the sentence
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