Building on civilizations that preceded them in coastal Peru, the Mochica developed their own elaborate society, based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting other wild and domestic resources.
A) based on cultivating such crops like corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and shellfish, and exploiting
B) based on the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans, the harvesting of fish and seafood, and the exploitation of
C) and basing it on the cultivation of crops like corn and beans, harvesting fish and seafood, and the exploiting of
D) and they based it on their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans, the harvest of fish and seafood, and exploiting
E) and they based it on their cultivating such crops like corn and beans, their harvest of fish and shellfish, and they exploited
Elite official SC 35 Building on civilizations that preceded
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based is used as a Verb-ed modifier here.
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based is used as a Verb-ed modifier here.
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Hey Rich,
We should notice that we're dealing with a three-part list in this sentence, so we should immediately start thinking about parallelism. We'll go through each answer choice to evaluate for parallelism.
A. Based on
B. Based on
C. Basing it on
D. They based it on
E. The based it on
This leaves us with B.
We should notice that we're dealing with a three-part list in this sentence, so we should immediately start thinking about parallelism. We'll go through each answer choice to evaluate for parallelism.
A. Based on
- cultivating such crops like corn and beans
- the harvesting of fish and shellfish
- exploiting other wild and domestic resources
B. Based on
- the cultivation of such crops as corn and beans
- the harvesting of fish and shellfish
- the exploitation of other wild and domestic resources
C. Basing it on
- the cultivation of crops like corn and beans
- the harvest of fish and shellfish
- exploiting other wild and domestic resources
D. They based it on
- their cultivation of crops such as corn and beans
- the harvest of fish and shellfish
- exploiting other wild and domestic resources
E. The based it on
- their cultivating such crops like corn and beans
- their harvest of fish and shellfish
- theyexploited other wild and domestic resources
This leaves us with B.
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