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In the mid-nineteenth century, the Daguerreotype process revolutionized visual culture by capturing highly detailed images on silver-plated copper sheets. Because the exposure times required several minutes of immobility, meaning that portrait subjects often had to use metal head braces to remain completely still.

Which choice best corrects the underlined portion of the passage?

  1. A
    NO CHANGE
  2. B
    Since the exposure times required several minutes of immobility; meaning that
  3. Because the exposure times required several minutes of immobility,Cevap
  4. D
    The exposure times required several minutes of immobility,

Cevap

The choice that provides the introductory dependent clause starting with 'Because' and ending with a comma, followed by the independent main clause.
The correct choice removes the word 'meaning that' and keeps the subordinating conjunction 'Because'. This successfully creates an introductory dependent clause followed by a comma and a complete independent clause ('portrait subjects often had to use...'), forming a grammatically complete complex sentence.

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1
Identify the structure of the original sentence and determine why it is incorrect.
The original sentence contains a dependent clause starting with 'Because' and a modifying phrase starting with 'meaning that', but lacks any independent clause, making it a sentence fragment.
A grammatically complete sentence must contain at least one independent clause with a subject and a verb that can stand alone.
2
Evaluate the choices to find one that resolves the fragment without creating other errors.
Removing 'meaning that' and placing a comma after 'immobility' turns the second part of the sentence into the main independent clause, resolving the fragment.
The subordinating conjunction 'Because' makes the first clause dependent, which is then correctly joined to the main independent clause by a comma.
3
Verify that the other choices do not introduce new grammatical errors.
The choice starting with 'Since' followed by a semicolon incorrectly attempts to link a dependent clause and a participle phrase. The choice starting with 'The exposure times' creates a comma splice by joining two independent clauses with only a comma.
Semicolons must connect two independent clauses, and independent clauses cannot be joined solely by a comma.

Anahtar Kavram

Avoiding sentence fragments by ensuring every sentence contains at least one independent clause, and properly joining dependent and independent clauses.
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