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Found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, the Florida manatee’s habitat extends from the Florida peninsula to Rhode Island, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Oceans, and a myriad of warm water springs.

A. Found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, the Florida manatee’s habitat extends
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B. Found mainly in warm tropical waters, Florida manatees survive through migration, their habitat extending
C. Florida manatees, found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, with their habitat extending
D. Florida manatees, found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, their habitat extends
E. Florida manatees are found mainly in warm tropical waters, survive through migration, and their habitat extends

Can somebody explain why E is incorrect?
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B. Found mainly in warm tropical waters, Florida manatees survive through migration, their habitat extending

In option B, the phrase "their habitat extending" makes the sentence structure sound odd to me. Can you please explain how this makes sense grammatically?
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B. Found mainly in warm tropical waters, Florida manatees survive through migration, their habitat extending

In option B, the phrase "their habitat extending" makes the sentence structure sound odd to me. Can you please explain how this makes sense grammatically?
Extending is an adjective which modifies the noun while geographically explaining the position of a noun.
Whereas, Extends means increasing the scope and range of an area.
In passage we are particularly given the geographical location. So using extending in place of extends is more grammatically logical.

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Found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, the Florida manatee’s habitat extends from the Florida peninsula to Rhode Island, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Oceans, and a myriad of warm water springs.

A. Found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, the Florida manatee’s habitat extends
Incorrect modifier
B. Found mainly in warm tropical waters, Florida manatees survive through migration, their habitat extending
C. Florida manatees, found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, with their habitat extending
D. Florida manatees, found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, their habitat extends
E. Florida manatees are found mainly in warm tropical waters, survive through migration, and their habitat extends

Can somebody explain why E is incorrect?

This could be the reason - manatees compared with their habitat. ‘Manatees are found’ is parallel to ‘manatees survive’. These two are not parallel to their habitat. The third should have mentioned Manatees and not their habitat.

Does this make sense?

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Found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, the Florida manatee’s habitat extends from the Florida peninsula to Rhode Island, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Oceans, and a myriad of warm water springs.

A. Found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, the Florida manatee’s habitat extends
Incorrect modifier
B. Found mainly in warm tropical waters, Florida manatees survive through migration, their habitat extending
C. Florida manatees, found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, with their habitat extending
D. Florida manatees, found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, their habitat extends
E. Florida manatees are found mainly in warm tropical waters, survive through migration, and their habitat extends

Can somebody explain why E is incorrect?

This could be the reason - manatees compared with their habitat. ‘Manatees are found’ is parallel to ‘manatees survive’. These two are not parallel to their habitat. The third should have mentioned Manatees and not their habitat.

Does this make sense?

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The parallelism has to be between "in warm tropical waters, surviving through migration and their habitat extends" which has to be directly linked to manatees but they have nothing in common, so can't be put parallel to each other. Hence E is eliminated.
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Found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, the Florida manatee’s habitat extends from the Florida peninsula to Rhode Island, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Oceans, and a myriad of warm water springs.

A. Found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, the Florida manatee’s habitat extends
Incorrect modifier
B. Found mainly in warm tropical waters, Florida manatees survive through migration, their habitat extending
C. Florida manatees, found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, with their habitat extending
D. Florida manatees, found mainly in warm tropical waters and surviving through migration, their habitat extends
E. Florida manatees are found mainly in warm tropical waters, survive through migration, and their habitat extends

Can somebody explain why E is incorrect?

This could be the reason - manatees compared with their habitat. ‘Manatees are found’ is parallel to ‘manatees survive’. These two are not parallel to their habitat. The third should have mentioned Manatees and not their habitat.

Does this make sense?

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"their habitat extending ....." is an absolute phrase modifying the previous clause - "Mantees survive through migration," .
Hence it is a modifier and need not be parallel. To find if it is absolute phrase check if it describes the previous clause.
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