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I was doing some JLPT N2 practice and I came across this:

> あのう、山本先生でいらっしゃいますか。私、先日、先生の講演会で（ ）鈴木と申します。
>
> １ ご覧になった
>
> ２ お会いになった
>
> ３ お目にかかった
>
> ４ お伺いした

My thinking:

Some form of 会った should be filled in the blank. So 1 and 4 are wrong. All of
the options don't have a subject. So I don't know whether it is:

> 先生の講演会で先生が会った鈴木
>
> the Suzuki that you met at your talk

or

> 先生の講演会で先生と会った鈴木
>
> the Suzuki that met you at your talk

Therefore I am not sure between 2 and 3. And apparently the correct answer is
3.

How do I know the subject?
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grammar keigo subjects
How do I figure out what the implied subject is?
1. ご覧になる is an _honorific_ form of 見る ("to take a look", "to watch").
  2. お会いになる is an _honorific_ version of 会う ("to meet").
  3. お目にかかる is a _humble_ version of 会う ("to meet").
  4. お伺いする is a _humble_ version of 伺う ("to visit").

Options 1 and 4 are semantically wrong verb choices. Although は is omitted,
the topic of the sentence in question is clearly 私. By starting a sentence
like this with 私, the listener would expect you are talking about 私, and
expect a humble expression. And the blank is followed by another humble
expression 申す. Therefore the subject of the masked verb is 私, and the correct
answer is 3.

(In addition, 先生が私にお会いになる and 先生がお会いになった私 themselves sound a little strange to
me although they do not violate the basic rules of keigo. I don't know why,
but if two people met each other and one of them is 私, I strongly feel a
humble expression with 私 as the subject is the default choice.)
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