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Option C contains a run-on sentence (I would call it a comma splice).
A better way to phrase the sentence could be:
1. A giant clam grows huge; it can weigh hundreds of pounds.
2. A giant clam grows huge. It can weigh hundreds of pounds.
The correct sentence is "They knew that it was she who created the beautiful painting," because the pronoun 'she' is used as a subject of the clause. You cannot use 'her' as a subject; it is usually used as a possessive pronoun.
The clause "it was she who created the beautiful painting" is grammatically correct because 'was' serves as the linking verb, making IT and SHE equal. So, if you are going to rephrase the sentence it would be 'She was the one who created the beautiful painting' and not 'Her was the one who created the beautiful painting'.
In paragraph 2 the idea of idealism is naïvebut still it makes sense to his credo which down the years grew to have some cynicism.
Explanation:
The Credo has grown shorter in recent years—sometimes cynical, sometimes comical, and sometimes bland—but I keep working at it. Recently I set out to get the statement of personal belief down to one page in simple terms, fully understanding the naïve idealism that implied.
The whole credo of idealism has sense and over the years has grown into cynicism.
At the beginning of the paragraph he uses uppercase letters to put an extra emphasis to his point from the start. He does this by exaggerating that all that is needed to know is little things. He uses the phrase “graduate-school mountain” by trying to get the reader to understand that the highest level of learning is not needed to know about life and how to handle it, or what to do in it. As he wrote the list he wrote it as a child from kindergarten whose mind is still innocent but all those steps of life are well needed and enough to be happy.
