This is a tricky question. 70% of the students got this question wrong, when I presented this question in class, .
Lets understand the question first before going into the options.
Clue words:
1. Which- Check the antecedent...
2. and - check for parallelism
3. comma(,) after dialects.. - What is the subject in the second clause
Also
Did you observe ...
The increased popularity and availability ..........has....
Shouldn't it be... have???
No."The increased popularity and availability " is a compound word so its a single unit. hence has...
Meaning of the sentence
The increased popularity and availability has led to a decline of dialects. Because of the increased popularity and availability - language variations originated and perpetuating.....
You should have observed that originated and perpetuating are consequences of "increased popularity".. hence they have to be participles and not verbs.
Quick tip: A participle phrases modifies the main subject. You can say that the participle phrase is one long adjective.
So we have to use participles here.
And - indicates parallelism.
Hence Participle and participle is the parallel structure in this sentence.
Let us analyze each sentence
Option A: Errors
1. No comma before which.
2. originate and perpetuated. - Originate is a verb and perpetuated is a participle. It should be originating from.
Option B: Error
originated is a past tense verb not a participle
Option C: Error
Originated is not a verb. It might look parallel to perpetuated. But it is not as perpetuated is a participle and "originated" is a verb. The participle form is "originating"
Option D: answer
Originating and perpetuated are the participles. Hence parallel
Option E: Error
Perpetuating is the participle form. not perpetuated.
Hope you learnt about participles today.
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