The United States has the largest trade deficit of any count

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The United States has the largest trade deficit of any country on Earth, other nations, such as China and Japan, holding stores of US dollars that increase each year.

(A) other nations, such as China and Japan, holding
(B) and other nations, like China and Japan, holding
(C) with other nations, like China and Japan, holding
(D) other nations, like China and Japan, hold
(E) other nations, such as China and Japan, hold

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by deloitte247 » Sat Mar 23, 2019 1:42 pm

OPTION A:- CORRECT
"Other nations.....holding" ----[noun]+[participle] : this has the form of an absolute clause, which is perfectly correct.

OPTION B:- INCORRECT
"And other nations....holding" the "and" implies another independent clause is coming, parallel to the clause is coming, parallel to the first, but instead we get noun+participle, which doesn't fit the patter. This is incorrect

OPTION C:- INCORRECT
which other nations.......holding this structure is common in colloquial speech, "with" +noun + participle. The prepositions "with" is designed to hold a noun, maybe even a modified noun, but not an entire action.

OPTION D:- INCORRECT
"Other nations...hold"
The noun + verb, another full independent clause. By itself, everything after the first comma in these choices could stand as a complete sentence. The problem is we have [independent clause], [independent clause] that's the structure of a run-on sentence. We always need some kind of conjunction (and, or, but, therefore etc) joining two independent clause:they can't just sit next to each other separated by a comma that's the classic run-on pattern. Both of these choices are incorrect.

OPTION E:- INCORRECT
Suffers the same fate as option D above. Uses such as correctly but second independent clause clause is 'Run-on'

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