Based on contemporary diaries from luminaries such as Horace Walpole and Lady Jemima Yorke, records of musical compositions, and subsequent legends, many conspiracy enthusiasts are convinced they can prove that the mysterious 18th-century high-society figure known as the Count of St. Germain lived for 500 years.
A) Based on contemporary diaries from luminaries such as Horace Walpole and Lady Jemima Yorke, records of musical compositions, and subsequent legends, -
this sentence kind of means that many conspiracy theorists are based on the given listB) With contemporary diaries from luminaries such as Horace Walpole and Lady Jemima Yorke, records of musical compositions, and subsequent legends used for a basis, -
Parallelism errorC) Basing it on contemporary diaries from luminaries such as Horace Walpole and Lady Jemima Yorke, records of musical compositions, and subsequent legends,
It has no proper antecedentD) Using contemporary diaries from luminaries such as Horace Walpole and Lady Jemima Yorke, records of musical compositions, and subsequent legends, -
Correct answer. "using.....Legends" correctly modifies many conspiracy theoristE) By contemporary diaries from luminaries such as Horace Walpole and Lady Jemima Yorke, musical compositions that
had been recorded, and subsequent legends, -
Parallelism error. "musical compositions....recorded" is a clause and the rest are noun