<p>The famous battle depicted in the film Braveheart took place in northern England, and many people assume that is was the scottish HighLands.</p>
<p>A) Blah Blah
B) many people assuming
C) but many people assume it to be
D) not what many people assume
E) not, as many, people assume, in</p>
<p>“and many people assume” suggests that the clauses are complementary and possibly that the Scottish Highlands is actually in England because it is some subset of northern England. The conjunction must be one that clarifies that the second part of the sentence contradicts the first and is speaking of an entirely different place. There are a couple ways it could be changed,“and not, as many people assume, in the Scottish Highlands” is one; a second way would be “although many people assume it was in the Scottish Highland” but that answer is not given. It cannot be “c” because there is an agreement of clauses problem because a second “in” is needed since you are talking about where the battle was, either “in” England or “in” the Scottish Highlands. Answer d doies not work for same reason and the “what” would have to be “where” for it to become a possible choice.</p>
<p>There are unfortunately typos in your post. With drusba’s correction, I agree that E is the best choice.</p>
<p>Often a quick way to identify the right answer is to strip the sentence to its core. Here that stripped down (corrected) sentence is:</p>
<p>The battle took place in northern England, and not in the scottish HighLands.</p>
<p>Note that the two locations are identified in “parallel” fashion – i.e. “in northern England” and “in the scottish Highlands”. Also note that the sentence is streamlined and crisp. All the other choices, apart from having grammatical flaws, are awkward statements.</p>