Spanning more than fifty years, Friedrich Muller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as a Sanskrit scholar and culminated in virtually every honor that European governments and learned societies could bestow.(A) Müller began his career in an unpromising apprenticeship as
(B) Müller's career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as
(C) Müller's career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
(D) Müller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
(E) the career of Müller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of

(B) Muller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as

Explanation:

Participial phrases, which acts as opening modifiers, should be followed by the noun they are modifying. This mistake is obvious in A and D.

In option C, “being” is used as an unfitting and awkward modifier which is not correct in the GMAT (however other uses of “being” is allowable).

Option E commits an error of verb tenses which is demonstrated in the tip below.

When a perfect tense is being used, it is appropriate to picture a tense timeline. We are aware that the past perfect must have happened for a time before the simple past (which has to be present in the sentence) and present perfect ought to have started prior to the simple present.

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