From the options stated above, the complete gerund phrase is:
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</span><span>D.killing any sacred animals
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Gerund is coined from verb in -ing form but functions as a noun. It can act as a subject, direct and indirect objects, predicate nominatives, and prepositional objects.
A word or phrase that modifies a word not included in the sentence is a B. dangling modifier.
For example:
Knowing that it was getting cold outside, the pizza tasted very good.
This sentence would probably be a citation in APA style. Citations on research papers are very important since they give due credit to the original owner of the statement. Statements that don't have citations tells the readers that those statements are of the researcher/s alone which would be a problem for them if found out that it wasn't theirs to begin with. This would result to a work of plagiarism which is a grave sin in constructing research papers and is more equated with the act of stealing.
It could either be choice 3 or 4.
There is a topic: "Reasons why people should buy hybrid autos."
Misspelled words? Nope. Use spellcheck if not sure.
No errors. None to me (I don't know about structure errors)
Only two details... looks fishy...
Choose from the two.