Sentence Correction

Iguanas have been an important food source in Latin America since prehistoric times, and it is still prized as a game animal by the campesinos, who typically cook the meat in a heavily spiced stew.

(A) it is still prized as a game animal
(B) it is still prized as game animals
(C) they are still prized as game animals
(D) they are still prized as being a game animal
(E) being still prized as a game animal


Struck in options C D and E.

Please help!

vishalwin wrote:Stuck in options C D and E.

Getting this question right mostly takes noticing what matches and what does not. For instance, in the original version, the plural Iguanas does not match the singular it.

Iguanas have been an important food source in Latin America since prehistoric times, and it is still prized as a game animal by the campesinos, who typically cook the meat in a heavily spiced stew.

(A) it is still prized as a game animal

(B) it is still prized as game animals

This one is even worse. it does not match Iguanas or game animals.

(C) they are still prized as game animals

This one looks pretty good. they matches Iguanas and game animals, and the sentence created using this choice is concise and its meaning clear.

(D) they are still prized as being a game animal

This one has two issues. One is that they does not match the singular a game animal. The second is that saying that they are prized as being a game animal does not really make sense. The sentence needs to say that they are prized as something, not as doing or being something. They are prized as game animals.

(E) being still prized as a game animal

Once again the singular a game animal does not match the plural Iguanas. In addition, what follows the , and in this version, is a modifier that does not work with the part of the sentence that precedes the comma. So the sentence created using this choice does not work. For ease in seeing the issue, here is a simplified version.

Iguanas have been an important food source in Latin America, and being still prized as a game animal.

For the sentence to work, something would have to be different about the part after the comma. For instance, if being were changed to are and animal were changed to animals, then it would work.

Iguanas have been an important food source in Latin America, and are still prized as game animals.