Question

The insect, famed for its remarkable annual migrations, faced declines in habitat on both the central american and canadian ends of its range for decades, now is the focus of an urgent push for a res

Answer 1

Answer:

the question should be

The insect, famed for its remarkable annual migrations, faced declines in habitat on both the Central American and Canadian ends of its range for decades, now is the focus of an urgent push for a rescue.

A ) decades, now is the focus of an urgent push for a rescue

B ) decades, has now become the focus of an urgent rescue push

C ) decades, and now is the focus of an urgent push for a rescue

D ) decades now, is the focus of an urgent push for a rescue

E ) decades; now is the focus of an urgent rescue push

At the beginning of the sentence, we have the main subject ("the insect"), a participial modifying clause, then the main verb ("faced"), then a direct object ("declines") then a long string of prepositional phrases modifying the direct object. Drop all the "fluff" and just put in the essential structure words:

(A) The insect faced decline, now is the focus ... RUN-ON, needs an "and" or other conjunction

(B) The insect faced decline, has now become the focus ... RUN-ON, needs an "and" or other conjunction

(C) The insect faced decline, and now is the focus ... proper parallelism between two verbs

(D) The insect faced decline now, is the focus ... Same mistake as (A), and the word "now" is in the wrong place

(E) The insect faced decline; now is the focus ... we would need a full clause after the semicolon, and what follows the semicolon here is a fragment, a verb-phrase with no subject

so the ans should be C

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