Discussion
Choose the grammatically correct sentence.
Answer: C
Correct answer: He blew out his brains with a gun, after bidding his wife goodbye.
With a gun names the instrument of blew out, so it belongs immediately after the object of that verb. The sentence then reads in the order of events: the farewell, then the act.
Why the others fail:
- He blew out with a gun his brains - the instrument is wedged between verb and object.
- after bidding his wife goodbye with a gun - this makes the gun the means of saying goodbye.
- With a gun, he blew out his brains - grammatical, but fronting the instrument gives it an emphasis the sentence does not want, and the standard order keeps it with the verb.
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