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Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC1)
For SC butler Questions Click Here Sharing land borders with two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, and adjacent to only one other state, New Hampshire, is the US state of Maine, in the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States.A) Sharing land borders with two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, and adjacent to only one other state, New Hampshire, is the US state of Maine, in the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States.
B) In the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States, the US state of Maine, sharing land borders with two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, and is only adjacent to one other state, New Hampshire.
C) The US state of Maine, in the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States, shares land borders with two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, but is adjacent to only one other state, New Hampshire.
D) Two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, share a border with the US state of Maine in the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States, and one state, New Hampshire, is only adjacent to it.
E) Only the US state of New Hampshire is adjacent to Maine, which shares a border with two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, in the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States.
A) Sharing land borders with two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, and adjacent to only one other state, New Hampshire, is the US state of Maine, in the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States. --->
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B) In the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States, the US state of Maine, sharing land borders with two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, and is only adjacent to one other state, New Hampshire. -->
modifiers should be placed as close to the Noun (Maine) as possible --> INCORRECT
C) The US state of Maine, in the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States, shares land borders with two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, but is adjacent to only one other state, New Hampshire. -->
modifiers should be placed as close to the Noun (Maine) as possible --> INCORRECTD) Two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, share a border with the US state of Maine in the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States, and one state, New Hampshire, is only adjacent to it. -->
wrong use of only -->INCORRECTE) Only the US state of New Hampshire is adjacent to Maine, which shares a border with two Canadian provinces, Quebec and New Brunswick, in the extreme northeast corner of the continental United States. -->
gives more preference to New Hampshire than two Canadian provinces (they are part of "which" modifier --> which is not seen in original meaning --> INCORRECT