Question

Amongst the options below, choose the one which is correctly punctuated.

• A. Last Sunday, we went canoeing on the Brahmaputra river. You could see eagles high in the trees above us.
• B. While we were canoeing last Sunday on the Brahmaputra river, high in the trees above us, you could see eagles.
• C. We went canoeing last Sunday on the Brahmaputra river, and high in the trees above us, we could see eagles.
• D. High in the trees above, the eagles were looking down at you, as we canoed on the Brahmaputra river last Sunday.

Hint:

Check that the pronoun stays the same person throughout the sentence and that the comma before "and" correctly joins two full clauses.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is C

Step 1: Understanding the Concept.
This question checks two things at once: correct comma use and a consistent point of view. All five original options describe the same canoe trip on the Brahmaputra river, so the wording differs mainly in pronoun choice, the placement of descriptive phrases, and punctuation, not in the underlying event being described.

Step 2: Key Approach.
First eliminate any option where the pronoun changes without a reason, since "we", the people who went canoeing, cannot suddenly become "you" with no new person introduced into the story. Then, among whatever is left, check that commas are used correctly, especially the comma placed before a coordinating conjunction like "and" that is joining two complete, independent clauses into one sentence. Finally check that descriptive phrases sit next to the noun they are meant to describe.

Step 3: Detailed Explanation.
Option 1 opens two separate sentences, the first using "we" and the second suddenly switching to "You could see eagles". Nothing in the sentence explains who "you" is, so this is an unjustified pronoun shift.
Option 2 has the same underlying problem: it opens with "we were canoeing" but then finishes with "you could see eagles", again changing the person without reason, and it also buries the location phrase "high in the trees above us" awkwardly in the middle of the sentence.
Option 4 opens with the modifying phrase "High in the trees above", which by placement should describe the eagles, but the sentence then says the eagles "were looking down at you", which both introduces an unexplained "you" and reverses the actual event, since the passage is about the writer and friends watching eagles, not eagles watching a person.
Option 3, "We went canoeing last Sunday on the Brahmaputra river, and high in the trees above us, we could see eagles", keeps "we" as the subject from the first word to the last, and the comma placed before "and" is exactly right, since it separates two independent clauses that could each stand alone as their own sentence.

Step 4: Final Answer.
Option 3 is the only sentence that keeps one consistent pronoun throughout and uses the comma before "and" correctly to join two full clauses, which makes it the correctly punctuated choice.