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Urban agriculture projects are becoming increasingly popular in modern cities. Because they provide fresh produce to local neighborhoods.

Which choice best corrects the underlined portion of the sentence?

  1. A
    NO CHANGE
  2. ; they provide fresh produce to local neighborhoods.Cevap
  3. C
    , they provide fresh produce to local neighborhoods.
  4. D
    ; because they provide fresh produce to local neighborhoods.

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; they provide fresh produce to local neighborhoods.
The correct answer properly resolves the sentence fragment by removing the subordinating conjunction 'because' and replacing it with the subject pronoun 'they' to create a complete independent clause. This new independent clause is correctly connected to the preceding independent clause using a semicolon.

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1
Analyze the underlined portion to determine if it is a complete sentence.
The phrase starts with the subordinating conjunction 'Because', making it a dependent clause rather than an independent clause. It lacks the ability to stand alone, so it is a sentence fragment.
Identifying the grammatical error in the original sentence is the first step to correcting it.
2
Evaluate the answer choices to find a version that resolves the fragment and maintains proper punctuation.
The option containing a semicolon followed by 'they' removes the subordinating conjunction, creating a second independent clause that is correctly connected to the first by a semicolon.
Two independent clauses can be joined by a semicolon to show a close relationship between the ideas.
3
Verify that the other choices do not introduce new grammatical errors.
The choice using a comma creates a comma splice, and the choice using a semicolon before 'because' still leaves a fragment after the semicolon.
Eliminating grammatically incorrect options ensures that the selected answer is correct.

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