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Standard English Conventions practice question
____ the fishermen mended their nets on the quay.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. Waiting for the tide,Correct
- B. Waiting for the tide
- C. The tide waiting,
- D. Having been waited for by the tide,
Answer: A. Waiting for the tide,
The fishermen are waiting, and the phrase is set off with a comma.
Why the other answers are wrong
- B. Waiting for the tide
- The opening phrase needs a comma.
- C. The tide waiting,
- Makes the tide wait.
- D. Having been waited for by the tide,
- Reverses who waits for whom.
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