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Difficulty: MediumSentence Fragments

The following passage is an excerpt from an essay about the history of urban planning.

In the mid-nineteenth century, urban reformers championed the creation of public parks to provide green spaces for city dwellers. These parks, which were envisioned as places of social harmony. They allowed residents to escape the crowded, industrial environment of the era.

Which choice best corrects the underlined portion of the sentence?

  1. A
    NO CHANGE
  2. B
    These parks were envisioned as places of social harmony; which
  3. C
    These parks were envisioned as places of social harmony, they
  4. These parks, which were envisioned as places of social harmony,Answer

Answer

The correct choice is the phrase that turns the fragment into a single, cohesive sentence by setting off the dependent clause with commas: 'These parks, which were envisioned as places of social harmony,'.
The correct answer successfully connects the subject 'These parks' with the verb 'allowed' by setting off the relative clause 'which were envisioned as places of social harmony' with commas. This resolves the sentence fragment in the original text and creates a single, grammatically complete sentence.

Step-by-Step Solution

1
Analyze the underlined portion and the surrounding context to identify the grammatical issue.
The first statement, 'These parks, which were envisioned as places of social harmony,' is a fragment because it lacks a main verb.
A complete sentence requires at least one independent clause containing a subject and a verb.
2
Evaluate the proposed options to see which one eliminates the fragment while maintaining proper punctuation and structure.
The option containing 'These parks, which were envisioned as places of social harmony,' connects this phrase to the verb 'allowed' in the next clause, forming a single grammatically correct sentence.
By removing the period and the pronoun 'They,' the sentence correctly uses a relative clause to modify 'These parks' and links it to the main verb 'allowed.'

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