Question

What is the best way to deal with sentence $1$(reproduced below)?
Not many children leave elementary school and they have not heard of Pocahontas' heroic rescue of John smith from her own people, the Powhatans.

• A. Leave it as it is
• B. Switch its position with that of sentence $2$
• C. Change "Leave" to "have left"
• D. Change "and they have not heard" to "without having heard"
• E. Remove the comma and insert "known as the"

Answer 1

The correct option is D Change "and they have not heard" to "without having heard"

Since the use of the conjunction 'and', here, is ungrammatical and distorts the meaning of the sentence; it should be changed to 'without' as it would convey the correct meaning of the sentence and would also be grammatically correct. Thus D is the answer.