What is grammar in SAT? Which are the examples?

Is this an SAT question? I was unable to choose between answers A and C, so I wonder what is wrong with answer C?

Why can’t “which” be used, though it also creates a dependent clause?

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Asked on March 28, 2021 in Grammar.
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“They wanted X which were placed high” is a tense problem, not a “which” problem. It swaps from “future in the past” (they wanted X) to past “which were placed” (which were the whole world put).

What would be the correct option if “they wanted X placed high”, “they wanted X to be placed high”, “they wanted X, which were to be placed high”, or “they wanted X, which would be placed high”.

Edit: Similarly, A) is wrong because “placing” is present tense and doesn’t match “they wanted”, which is past tense, and requires the “to place” tense to either be past or “future in the past”.

Answered on March 28, 2021.
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