BTGmoderatorRO wrote:Polynesia is an archipelago with at least thousand islands, among whom nineteen have official recognition.
A. among whom nineteen have official recognition
B. nineteen of which are officially recognized
C. nineteen that have official recognition
D. of whom nineteen have official recognition
E. nineteen that are officially recognized
OA is b
Any idea on why option B is incorrect
Option B is the correct answer.
What we want here is a modifier that gives the reader some information on the "
at least thousand islands" present on the archipelago. The original intent of the sentence is that
out of these 1000 islands - and not another set of islands - 19 are officially recognized. So we need the preposition "
of" to convey this information. This is best given by option
B. Let us go through the other options -
A. among
whom nineteen have official recognition - "whom" can be used only to refer to people.
C. nineteen that have official recognition - here the sentence looks like that
apart from the 1000 archipelago islands mentioned, there is another set of islands that have official recognition. We need the preposition "
of" to make it clear that we are talking about the
same set of islands.
D. of
whom nineteen have official recognition - same as A.
E. nineteen that are officially recognized - same as C.
Hence,
B is the correct answer.
Please let me know if anything doesn't make sense.
