Multiple choice softskills leadership

Spanning more than 50 years, Friedrich Müller 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.

  1. the career of M?ller has begun with an unpromising apprenticeship of

  2. M?ller’s career began in an unpromising apprenticeship as

  3. M?ller’s career began with the unpromising apprenticeship of being

  4. M?ller had begun his career with the unpromising apprenticeship of being
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B Correct answer
Explanation

The opening modifier 'Spanning more than 50 years' must describe 'Müller’s career' rather than Müller himself. The correct option provides this logical subject and uses the idiomatic 'apprenticeship as' to describe his role, maintaining parallel structure with the rest of the sentence.

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