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Hi,

I need help in solving the SC below:

 

1. Cajuns speak a dialect brought to southern Louisiana by the four thousand Acadians who migrated there in 1755; their language is basically seventeenth-century French to which has been added English, Spanish and Italian words.

(A) to which has been added English, Spanish and Italian words

(B) added to which is English, Spanish, and Italian words

© to which English, Spanish, and Italian words have been added

(D) with English, Spanish, and Italian words having been added to it

(E) and, in addition, English, Spanish, and Italian words are added

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Cajuns speak a dialect brought to southern Louisiana by the four thousand Acadians who migrated there in 1755; their language is basically seventeenth-century French to which has been added English, Spanish and Italian words.

(A) to which has been added English, Spanish and Italian words

(B) added to which is English, Spanish, and Italian words

© to which English, Spanish, and Italian words have been added..correct

(D) with English, Spanish, and Italian words having been added to it...usage of with not desirable here, passive & not very clear what 'it' refers to

(E) and, in addition, English, Spanish, and Italian words are added..and in addition, usageof both not correct, besides, added to what?

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  • 2 years later...

It is C

 

according to OG explanation, the option "D offers an awkward adverbial construction, which cannot be used to modify nouns." Iam wondering where is the adverbial construction? as far as Im concern, with is a proposition and in the whole phrase I cant see any adverb...

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