Question

Simplify the underlined part of the given sentence (if necessary):
By 1940, the pilot Jacqueline Cochran held seventeen official national and international speed records, and she earned them at a time when aviation was still so new form any of the planes she flew to be of dangerously experimental design.

• A. and she earned them at a time when aviation was still so new for many of the planes she flew to be
• B. earning them at a time that aviation was still so newformanyofthe planes she flew to be
• C. earning these at a time where aviation was still so new that many of the planes she flew were
• D. earned at a time in which aviation was still so new such that many of the planes she flew were
• E. earned at a time when aviation was still so new that many of the planes she flew were

Answer 1

The correct option is E earned at a time when aviation was still so new that many of the planes she flew were

The given sentence has one error "...aviation was still so new for many of the planes she flew..." The sentence obviously does not want to say that aviation was new for planes! Option A is incorrect because of this reason. The correct logical idiom that should be used is the 'so X that Y'. Option B, too, repeats the idiomatic error of the given sentence. Also, in B 'for', a preposition, is followed by a clause 'many of the planes were' which is grammatically incorrect. In option C, the use of 'where' is incorrect in the given context as it refers to a place and not time. Also, the demonstrative pronoun 'that' needs to be followed by a noun. The use of 'so new such that' (it should be 'so new that') in D is incorrect as is the use of 'in which' to refer to a point of time ('when' is used to refer to time). Thus, option E is the only correct option that befits the context.