PeepalTree
The asteroid that struck the Yucatan peninsula 65 million years ago quickly incinerated much of the plant and animal life in North America, created a dust cloud that changed the global climate, and that is how it killed off hundreds of thousands of species throughout the world.
The event happened in the past, so only past tense will be used to define the verb
A) quickly incinerated much of the plant and animal life in North America, created a dust cloud that changed the global climate, and
that is how it killed off hundreds of thousands of species throughout the worldThis part breaks the parallelism.
B) caused the killing off of hundreds of thousands of species throughout the world through the quick incinerating of much of the plant and animal life in North America and the creating of a dust cloud that changed the global climate
It did not cause anything, it resulted in something
C) caused the quick incinerating of much of the plant and animal life in North America, the creating of a dust cloud that changed the global climate, and the killing off of hundreds of thousands of species throughout the world
It did not cause anything, it resulted in something
D) killed off hundreds of thousands of species throughout the world by quickly incinerating much of the plant and animal life in North America and
creating a dust cloud that changed the global climate
Its still not creating that cloud, Not parallel.
E)
killed off hundreds of thousands of species throughout the world, quickly
incinerated much of the plant and animal life in North America, and
created a dust cloud that changed the global climate
Correct answer.
check again there is a cause and effect event happening in the sentence.