" Literature enhances the adequacy of our ethical reflection and leads to more accepting, tolerant viewpoints as a consequence of readers being faced with an infinite range of characters, cultures and crises that they may not otherwise come into contact with."
* not my words!*
Hope this helps!
A. a research question would be the most fitting to your question.
The correct answer is that it is a simple sentence.
This means that it consists of only one independent clause - meaning there is only one finite verb in the sentence. In this case, the verb is <em>rule.
</em><em />A compound sentence has at least two independent clauses; a compound-complex sentence has at least two independent clauses plus at least one dependent clause; a dependent clause cannot exist on its own because it is just a fragment of a larger sentence, which is obviously not the case here.