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

Answer: (C)

Fortunately, out of hundreds of planes flying to international destinations only two were shipwrecked last year.

Since the word "fortunately " modifies the word "planes" these should be placed close, but not together so as to retain the subject-verb agreement. Hence Option C is correct. The rest of the options do not place the qualifying adverb close to the subject or do not retain the subject-verb agreement, hence these are incorrect.