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To protect their nests from predators, leafcutter ants carry freshly cut leaves underground to cultivate a specialized fungus. Which serves as the colony's primary food source.

Which choice best corrects the underlined portion of the sentence?

  1. A
    NO CHANGE
  2. fungus, which serves asCevap
  3. C
    fungus; which serves as
  4. D
    fungus, this fungus serves as

Cevap

fungus, which serves as
The correct option is 'fungus, which serves as' because it resolves the fragment by using a comma to attach the non-essential relative clause to the independent clause that precedes it.

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1
Analyze the underlined portion and the surrounding context.
The text after the period, 'Which serves as the colony's primary food source', lacks an independent subject-verb relationship and is a relative clause.
Relative clauses beginning with relative pronouns like 'which' are dependent clauses and cannot stand alone as sentences.
2
Evaluate the choices to find one that correctly connects this dependent clause to the main clause.
The option containing 'fungus, which serves as' uses a comma to attach the non-essential relative clause directly to the noun it modifies, 'fungus'.
This establishes a grammatically complete sentence with an independent clause followed by a dependent relative clause.
3
Verify that the other choices are grammatically incorrect.
The option containing a semicolon creates a fragment because semicolons cannot separate dependent clauses. The option containing 'this fungus serves as' creates a comma splice by joining two independent clauses with only a comma.
Ensuring all distractors violate distinct grammar rules confirms the validity of the chosen correct option.

Anahtar Kavram

Identifying and correcting sentence fragments by properly connecting dependent relative clauses to independent clauses.
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