"when about 16 years of age, i happen'd to meet with a book written by one tryon, recommending a vegetable diet." (from franklin's the autobiography) which sentence best rephrases this in modern-day syntax? a) when i was 16 years of age i met a book written by one tryon about vegetable diets. b) when i was 16 i read a book, by a man named tryon, which recommended a vegetable diet. c) when i reached 16 years, i did find tryon's book, which did recommend a vegetable diet. d) when i was 16 years old, i happened upon a book, recommending to dine upon a diet of vegetables, by the man tryon.

The answer is:

B) When I was 16 I read a book, by a man named Tryon, which recommended a vegetable diet.

Syntax is the arrangement of words and phrases to produce correct sentences in a language. In modern-day syntax, the words and phrases of he original sentence are simplified, past simple regular verbs are formed with -ed, and clauses are linked by relative clauses.

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