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Passage context: 'Tundra fires in 2012 from as far away as North America produced great amounts of soot, some 17 OF IT drifted over Greenland in giant plumes of smoke and then fell as particles onto the ice sheet.' Which choice best replaces the underlined portion?
ADELETE the underlined portion.
BNO CHANGE (of it)
Csoot
Dof which
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: D. of which
Choice C (of which) is correct. The sentence needs a relative pronoun connecting 'soot' to the action 'drifted over Greenland'. 'Of which' creates a grammatical relative clause. 'Of it' creates a comma splice (two independent clauses joined by only a comma).
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