Question

Out of hundreds of planes flying to international destinations only two were fortunately shipwrecked last year.
Choose the option that best corrects the sentence-
(a)Only two were fortunately shipwrecked last year out of hundreds of planes flying to international destinations.
(b)Out of hundreds of planes fortunately flying to international destinations, only two were shipwrecked last year.
(c)Fortunately, out of hundreds of planes flying to international destinations only two were shipwrecked last year.
(d)No change

Answer 1

Hint: Read the given sentence carefully. Find out the subject, predicate and object of the given sentence. Try to find the core meaning of the given sentence.

Complete answer: The given sentence conveys that out of hundred frying planes, to international destinations, only two were shipwrecked. We have to try to shorten the length of the sentence and make it a little more grammatically suitable, and understanding. We can shift words from the mid-sentence to the initial sentence. But, while doing all this, we must keep in mind that the core meaning, the tense form and the verbs remain the same. We cannot change them.
Now, let us examine all the given options to find out the correct answer :
Option 'a' is - it cannot be the correct answer as we can have a better version of it anyway. Instead of starting the sentence from 'only', we can start it with 'fortunately' to make it better.
Option 'b' is - it is not the correct answer as it is making the sentence unnecessarily lengthy and shabby to read. We can still have better options than this one.
Option 'c' is - it is the correct option as it is to the point and is starting with 'fortunately', which makes it the best option out of the four. The tense and the meaning of this sentence is also correct.
Option 'd' - it has to be chosen if all the other three options are incorrect or have different meanings than the already given sentence.
Hence, option 'c' is the correct option.

Note: In such types of questions, you must also see the use of punctuation marks. Only option 'c' is making the sentence more readable and up to the mark, as it also has a 'coma' after 'fortunately'.