Out of hundreds of planes flying to international destinations only two were fortunately shipwrecked last year.Choose the option that best corrects the sentence.

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Out of hundreds of planes flying to international destinations only two were fortunately shipwrecked last year.

Choose the option that best corrects the sentence.

Only two were fortunately shipwrecked last year out of hundreds of planes flying to international destinations.

Out of hundreds of planes fortunately flying to international destinations, only two were shipwrecked last year.

Fortunately, out of hundreds of planes flying to international destinations only two were shipwrecked last year.

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Since the word "fortunately " modifies the word "planes" these should be placed close, but not together so as to retain the subject-verb agreement. Hence Option C is correct. The rest of the options do not place the qualifying adverb close to the subject or do not retain the subject-verb agreement, hence these are incorrect.

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