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<p>The first indian woman to win the Booker Prize, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, recieved the honor in 1997.</p>

<p>(A) The first Indian woman to win the Booker Prize, Arundhati Roy’s debut novel, The God of Small Things, recieved the honor in 1997.
(B) Arundhati Roy, the first Indian woman to win the Booker Prize for her debut novel The God of Small Things, receiving the honor in 1997.
(C) The first Indian woman to recieve the Booker Prize, Arundhati Roy won the honor in 1997 for her debut novel, *The God of Small Things.<a href=“D”>/I</a> The Booker Prize was given to Arundhati Roy’s debut novel The God of Small Things, winning her the first such honor for and Indian woman in 1997.
(E) Arundhati Roy, winning the Booker Prize in 1997 for her debut novel The God of Small Things, made her the first Indian woman to do so.</p>

<p>OMG how is it C? WHY COULDN’T IT BE D?!(*#@&#</p>

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<p>D is awkward and uses the passive tense.
C is the only non-awkward sentence from the list.</p>

<p>Tip: Most good sentences have verbs that will not contain unnecessary -ing suffix.</p>

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<p>D jus sounds akaward… plus its a little wordy to me. always go for short and simple when u can.</p>

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<p>(D) The Booker Prize was given to Arundhati Roy’s debut novel The God of Small Things, winning her the first such honor for and Indian woman in 1997.</p>

<p>hey… “her” is misused and does not modify any pronoun. it’s meant to modify “Arundhati Roy” but the pronoun is never stated</p>

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<p>why c then</p>