At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the

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At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the German-English astronomer William Herschel suggested that sunspots were holes in the flaming atmosphere of the sun, that through them the dark and cool surface of the sun  itself could be seen, and this dark surface might be inhabited.  
 
itself could be seen, and this dark surface might be inhabited
 
itself could be seen, and that dark surface might be inhabited
 
itself could be seen, and that this dark surface might be inhabited
 
could be seen itself, and this dark surface might have inhabitants
 
could itself have been seen, and that dark surface might have inhabitants

maaverick · Answer

... William Herschel suggested 

 that  sunspots  were  holes in the flaming atmosphere of the sun, 

 that  through them the dark and cool surface of the sun itself  could be seen ,

and  that  this dark surface might be  inhabited . 

Clearly, it's  (C) : itself could be seen, and that this dark surface might be inhabited

maaverick · Answer

IMO, it's not (B) because of the missing "this". (B) is ambiguous with regards to which dark spot the author is talking about.

aryan · Answer

I agree with Maaverick and with his reasoning.
The answer should be C.
Without this, it becomes dangling and is not pointing to the dark surface that was already discussed.

Aryan

HongHu · Answer

agree to (C)? agree with (C)? :?:

forrestgump · Answer

If it has to be C - then C it is.

We have quite a few smart folks out here.
Cheers
FG

praveen_rao7 · Answer

I am going to play devils advocate here :twisted:

why can't it be A ? since underlined portion of the sentence " that through them the dark and cool surface of the sun itself could be seen, and this dark surface might be inhabited" is modifying the noun sunspots since both sides of "and" are refering to the same noun/noun clause we don't necessarily need to keep "that" in the second part to maintain parallelism. Anybody with a explanation?. Paul, Praet anybody else?

ketanm · Answer

If  that  is not included, it causes a  parallelism  error.

William Herschel suggested  that  'X',  that  'Y', and  that  'Z' 

X = sunspots were holes in the flaming atmosphere of the sun
Y = through them the dark and cool surface of the sun itself could be seen
Z = this dark surface might be inhabited

Am I right?

Ketan

At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the

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