Writing>Improving Sentences
Part or all of the following sentence is underlined;beneath the sentence are five ways of phrasing the underlined material.Select the option that produces the best sentence.If you think the original phrasing produces a better sentence than any of the alternatives,select choice A.
Althea Gibson, the first African American tennis player to be recognized as a world champion, beginning to play amateur tennis in the 1940s.
(A) beginning to play
(B) began playing
(C) and she began playing
(D) she began to play
(E) she had begun playing