SAT Reading & Writing · Form, Structure, and Sense
The professor's lecture covered three main topics: the causes of the conflict, its major battles, and ______.
The professor's lecture covered three main topics: the causes of the conflict, its major battles, and ______.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
Answer and explanation
Answer: B: its eventual resolution
The list needs a third item grammatically parallel to the first two noun phrases, "the causes" and "its major battles," and its eventual resolution matches that noun-phrase pattern exactly. A shifts into a full clause structure, breaking the parallel list. C shifts into a verb-based gerund phrase with a different structure than the noun phrases before it. D also shifts into a full clause, breaking the established noun-phrase pattern of the list.
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