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Mark for Review
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
B
C
D
Correct Answer: A
Your Answer:
Explanation
A
In this Rules question, punctuation is changing in the answer choices. The first part of the sentence says the reason that people may have intrusive memories with neutral content is that, and it contains the subject-verb pair reason and is. There should not be a single punctuation mark between the subject and verb, so eliminate answers with punctuation.
(A) is correct because no punctuation should be used here.
(B), (C), and (D) are wrong because a single punctuation mark cannot come between a subject and a verb.
