For most consumers, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise annually, even if free of damage claims and moving violations.
(A) even if
(B) despite being
(C) even if they are
(D) although they may be
(E) even if remaining
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Look out the sentence, it's missing object(pronoun) after 'even if' , Therefore correct answer to include pronoun is C or D
And to put more certainty, we could eliminate 'may be', so answer would be [spoiler]'C'[/spoiler]
And to put more certainty, we could eliminate 'may be', so answer would be [spoiler]'C'[/spoiler]
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I tried to rebuild the sentence like this:soumyopriyosaha wrote:For most consumers, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise annually, even if free of damage claims and moving violations.
(A) even if
(B) despite being
(C) even if they are
(D) although they may be
(E) even if remaining
For most consumers,even if they are free of damage claims and moving violations, the price of automobile insurance continues to rise annually.
"they " properly refer back to consumers & also close to it!!
IMO C
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