Actually, the correct choice would be A. "....the battle's only survivor/swam up and away from those silent corpses...".
I just took the whole unit test, C. Was wrong.
It's A.
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Earl, another of Esperanza's neighbors, is a jukebox repairman who works nights and is seen only when he comes out to tell the children sitting in front of his door to keep quiet. He has two lively dogs, and occasionally he gives the children old jukebox records. Earl supposedly has a wife, and many of the neighbors claim to have seen her, but everyone describes her differently. Earl clearly has a series of women whom he brings to his apartment for quick visits every now and then.
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Corruption decreases economic development both internally and externally by reducing material capital expenditure. A unit increase in corruption reduces Gross domestic product and per capita spending growth rates; corruption stifles economic development; reduces economic productivity and development notwithstanding the country's vast resources. Corruption tarnishes the country's reputation and results in the loss of the much income.
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1. Sunny yet dusty, the traveler finally arrived at her destination. -- misplaced modifier
2. The raccoon could not decides whether to cross the highway that night. -- subject-verb disagreement
3 The policemen hauled the escaped prisoner off to jail and fingerprint him before putting him in a cell. -- incorrect verb tense
4. The electric eel emitted his electric charge and they dived to the ocean's depths. -- pronoun antecedent disagreement
Explanation:
1. "Sunny yet dusty" is a misplaced modifier. Modifiers usually stand close to the noun they refer to. In this case, it would not make sense for the word "sunny" to refer to "traveler" in this context. That means this modifier refers to "destination", but is too far away from it in the structure.
2. "The raccoon decides" would be alright, but we have "could not" right after the subject. In this case, "decides" should not be conjugated. The right form would be "The raccoon could not decide."
3. The whole sentence talks about actions that took place in the past. However, the verb "fingerprint" is not conjugated in its past form, which makes it inconsistent with the rest of the sentence.
4. The electric eel is an animal. The best pronoun to use to refer to an eel would be "it". Let's suppose this is a fable or some other type of story that refers to animals as "he" or "she". That would make "his" acceptable, but we would still have a problem with the "they" afterwards. Who are they? The sentence only mentions the eel.
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4. persuasive, influential and pleasing.
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noun
the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the use of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.
