The Yazidi religion, containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, C

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The Yazidi religion, containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is rooted predominant in Kurdish culture, its largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq .

A. The Yazidi religion, containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is rooted predominant in Kurdish culture, its largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq

B. The Yazidi religion, containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is rooted predominantly in Kurdish culture, and its largest community of followers sporadically occupies northern Iraq

C. Containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Yazidi religion is rooted predominantly in Kurdish cultural, its largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq

D. The Yazidi religion, its largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq, contains elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity as well as Islam, and is rooted predominantly in Kurdish culture

E. Containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Yazidi religion is rooted predominantly in Kurdish culture, its largest community of followers sporadic occupying northern Iraq

sj296 · Answer

Points to keep in mind:

Adjectives can only describe nouns.
An adverb should be used to describe a verb.

A. The Yazidi religion, containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is rooted  predominant  in Kurdish culture,  its  largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq................. Predominant is an adjective describing the verb rooted & pronoun ambiguity. WRONG.

B. The Yazidi religion, containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is rooted predominantly in Kurdish culture, and its largest community of followers sporadically occupies northern Iraq................... Seems fine

C. Containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Yazidi religion is rooted predominantly in Kurdish cultural,  its  largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq................. Pronoun ambiguity

D. The Yazidi religion, its largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq, contains elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity  as well as Islam , and is rooted predominantly in Kurdish culture................... wordy sentence

E. Containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Yazidi religion is rooted predominantly in Kurdish culture,  its  largest community of followers  sporadic  occupying northern Iraq....................... pronoun ambiguity+adjective sporadic describing verb occupying

OA should be B

swim2109 · Answer

D in my opinon.

Pre-thinking error: Predominant is an adverb so it should be used as pre-dominantly. Eliminate A

Its has ambiguity as it may refer to followers of Kurdish Culture. Only D is clear and parallel.

Bunuel · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

The Yazidi religion, containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is rooted predominant in Kurdish culture, its largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq.

A. The Yazidi religion, containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, is rooted predominant in Kurdish culture, its largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. An adjective ( predominant ) cannot describe a verb ( rooted ). Adjectives can only describe nouns.

An adverb should be used to describe a verb.

B. The Yazidi religion, containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, is rooted predominantly in Kurdish culture, and its largest community of followers sporadically occupies northern Iraq

This answer choice corrects the original Parts of Speech error by using an adverb ( predominantly ) to describe a verb ( rooted ).

C. Containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Yazidi religion is rooted predominantly in Kurdish cultural, its largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq

Although this answer choice corrects the original Parts of Speech error by using an adverb to describe a verb, it creates another similar error by using two adjectives ( Kurdish cultural ) without having a noun for them to describe.

D. The Yazidi religion, its largest community of followers sporadically occupying northern Iraq, contains elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity as well as Islam, and is rooted predominantly in Kurdish culture

Although this answer choice corrects the original Parts of Speech error by using an adverb to describe a verb, it creates Redundancy with the phrase as well as. Although as well as is a stylistic flaw, it is one of the specific Redundancies that should always be corrected.

Using as well as instead of and is redundant.

What helps us identify this Redundancy error is the following Stop Sign: as well as

Using  as well as  instead of  and  is redundant.

What helps us identify this Redundancy error is the following Stop Sign: as well as

E. Containing elements of Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, the Yazidi religion is rooted predominantly in Kurdish culture, its largest community of followers sporadic occupying northern Iraq

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect and repeats the original Parts of Speech error. An adjective ( sporadic ) cannot describe a verb ( occupying ). Adjectives can only describe nouns.

An adverb should be used to describe a verb.

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