Question 2 Explanation_Digital SAT Reading and Writing Practice Test 10

The following excerpt is from The Story of Mankind by Hendrik Willem van Loon (1921).

We know very little about the first "true" men. We have never seen their pictures. In the deepest layer of clay of an ancient soil, we have sometimes found pieces of their bones. These lay buried amidst the broken skeletons of other animals that have long since disappeared from the face of the _____ have taken these bones and have been able to reconstruct our earliest ancestors with a fair degree of accuracy.

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Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A

earth, anthropologists

A

B

earth and anthropologists

B

C

earth, and anthropologists

C

D

earth; and, anthropologists

D

Correct Answer: C

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Explanation

C. Choice (C) conforms to the conventions of Standard English because it is punctuated correctly. Two independent clauses cannot be joined with a comma — remember the dreaded comma splice? Cross out Choice (A). The same for Choice (B), which has no punctuation between the independent clauses, and Choice (D), which incorrectly uses the semicolon and the word "and."

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