Varane wrote:
I chose the correct answer but was between B and D in the end.
D def sounds better and seems to have elements in parallel too. While B uses stood then weighing and wielding.
Can you please provide a full and elaborate concept behind elimination of B.
I am not able to make out how it is a run on. Thanks
Additional question:
Would this be correct?
It stood twelve feet tall, weighed nine thousand pounds, and wielded seven-inch claws, Megatherium americanum was a giant ground sloth that (and?) may have been the largest hunting mammal ever to walk the Earth.
Also usage of 'that' and 'and' is confusing in my version of sentence. Will both be right?
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Dear Varane,
Your version would not be correct because you have joined two independent clauses by comma.
It stood twelve feet tall, weighed nine thousand pounds, and wielded seven-inch claws, Megatherium americanum was a giant ground sloth that (and?) may have been the largest hunting mammal ever to walk the Earth.B is wrong because of modifier issue; whereas "weighing nine thousand pounds" is modifying It, the wielding seven-inch claws is modified Megatherium americanum. What the reason to split if all these modifiers are modifying It = Megatherium americanum ?
(B)
It stood twelve feet tall, weighing nine thousand pounds, and
wielding seven-inch claws, Megatherium americanum was a giant ground sloth and
Hope it helps