Given below is a sentence in jumbled order. From the following options, select the one which is grammatically correct as he asked for a raise / notwithstanding / the young man looked / his nervousness / directly in the eyes / his employer.
The grammatically correct sentence from the given options is Option C.
This sentence correctly uses “notwithstanding” as a preposition meaning “in spite of” or "despite".
It indicates that despite his nervousness, the young man was able to look his employer directly in the eyes while asking for a raise. The other options have incorrect or awkward sentence structures.