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Standard English Conventions practice question
Ice cores showed that the climate had flipped within a single human ____ overturned the assumption that such shifts take millennia.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. levels, a discovery thatCorrect
- B. levels. A discovery that
- C. levels; a discovery that
- D. levels a discovery that
Answer: A. levels, a discovery that
'A discovery that overturned…' is not a sentence; attached with a comma, it becomes an appositive describing the finding.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. levels. A discovery that
- Set off by a period, 'A discovery that overturned…' is a fragment.
- C. levels; a discovery that
- A semicolon must have a complete sentence on each side, and the second part is not one.
- D. levels a discovery that
- With no punctuation, the appositive collides with the clause before it.
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