Complete the academic passage by filling in the blank with a noun or pronoun that correctly completes the sentence according to the conventions of Standard English.
Answer:In her 2023 monograph on the ancient Maya, historian Dr. Beatriz Gomez scrutinized the agricultural terraces of the Copán Valley. Having meticulously mapped the distribution of these stone-walled fields, 【Gomez】 argued that Maya farming practices were far more sustainable than previously assumed.
Answer
The blank must be filled with a subject that can logically perform the action of mapping the fields, such as 'Dr. Gomez', 'Gomez', 'she', or 'the historian'.
The sentence begins with the introductory participial phrase 'Having meticulously mapped the distribution of these stone-walled fields'. For the sentence to be grammatically correct, the subject of the main clause must be the entity that performed the mapping. Since Dr. Beatriz Gomez is the historian who conducted this research, a noun or pronoun referring directly to her must occupy the subject position.
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Subject-Modifier Agreement
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