Answer:
The answer is indeed letter C) The brown bear is characterized by a distinctive hump on the shoulders, a slightly dished profile to the face, and long claws on the front paws.
Explanation:
For a structure to present parallelism, it must repeat a certain grammatical form inside the sentence. Parallel structures are used to create consistency in a series of words and phrases and to express more than just one idea in a single sentence. They help to to avoid confusion, making the speech clear, interesting, and easy to be understood.
The best option to answer this question is letter C. It is the only option that presents parallelism. After "The brown bear is characterized by", the speaker lists three characteristics as objects of the preposition. The first one is "a distinctive hump on the shoulders", which could be mainly divided into adjective + noun + noun, indicating a feature of the bear and where in its body it is found. For the structure to be parallel, the next two characteristics must follow the same track, which they do: "a slightly dished profile to the face, and long claws on the front paws." Again, both characteristics can be roughly divided into adjective + noun + noun and, once more, they indicate a feature and where in the body it is found.
