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The Republic of the Philippines encompasses more than seven thousand islands, two of them comprising two-thirds of the nation's area.

A) two of them comprising two-thirds of the nation's area
B) two-thirds of its area being in two of them
C) and its area is two-thirds in two islands
D) two of them comprise two-thirds of the nation's area
E) which have two-thirds of its area in two of them
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I am confused with the answer choices. Is D correct?
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I am gonna go with D. does anyone have an explanation?
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I am gonna go with D. does anyone have an explanation?
Hello, Fereshteh0568. It is good practice to wait for an OA to be revealed before asking for someone to explain the answer choices. I will say that (D) cannot be the answer, since two independent clauses would be joined by nothing more than a comma (thereby creating what is known as a comma splice). I would suggest looking into theory on modifiers and absolute phrases to see if you can figure out which iteration of the sentence is both grammatically sound and clear in its expression.

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I am gonna go with D. does anyone have an explanation?


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D seems to be a run on sentence as a comma cannot separate two independent clauses.
A must be the correct answer. The whole phrase after the comma is an appositive, modifying the "islands". Such kind of construction is valid in English language.
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A) two of them comprising two-thirds of the nation's area - I don't find any flaw in this particular option. "Them" is clearing refering to islands. (keep)
B) two-thirds of its area being in two of them - If "it" refers to republic and "Them" refers to islands, the option would render a vauge meaning. So this one should go.(out)
C) and its area is two-thirds in two islands . In this option, the idea seems to fall short because the "two islands" doesn't seems to have any relation to the seven thousand islands.(out)
D) two of them comprise two-thirds of the nation's area - Run on. No conjuctions used. (out)
E) which have two-thirds of its area in two of them - When the proper anecedents are substituted, the option seems to imply that seven thousands island have two third of republic area in two of the islands. Its long, wordy and incorrect. (out)

Methinks its A. :)

Do correct me if I am wrong.
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I am confused with the answer choices. Is D correct?

Hello Fereshteh0568,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, as others have pointed out here, Option D cannot be correct because it uses a comma to join the independent clauses "The Republic of the Philippines encompasses more than seven thousand islands" and "two of them comprise two-thirds of the nation's area"; remember, semicolons and the “comma + conjunction” construction are used to link two independent clauses; commas are used to link an independent clause with a dependent one; comma cannot be used to join two independent clauses.

We hope this helps.
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