African American Percy Julian was a scientist and entrepreneur whose work helped people around the world to see. Named in

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African American Percy Julian was a scientist and entrepreneur whose work helped people around the world to see. Named in 1999 as one of the greatest achievements by a US chemist in the past hundred years, blank led to the first mass-produced treatment for glaucoma.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

Accepted Answer

Choice C is the best answer. The convention being tested is subject-modifier placement. This choice makes the noun phrase &ldquo;Julian&rsquo;s 1935 synthesis&rdquo; the subject of the sentence and places it immediately after the modifying phrase &ldquo;named...years.&rdquo; In doing so, this choice clearly establishes that Julian&rsquo;s 1935 synthesis of the alkaloid physostigmine-and not another noun in the sentence-was named in 1999 as one of the greatest achievements by a US chemist in the past hundred years. Choice A is incorrect because it results in a dangling modifier. The placement of the noun &ldquo;Julian&rdquo; immediately after the modifying phrase illogically suggests that Julian himself was named as one of the greatest achievements by a US chemist in the past hundred years. Choice B is incorrect because it results in a dangling modifier. The placement of the prepositional phrase &ldquo;in 1935&rdquo; immediately after the modifying phrase illogically and confusingly suggests that &ldquo;in 1935&rdquo; was named as one of the greatest achievements by a US chemist in the past hundred years. Choice D is incorrect because it results in a dangling modifier. The placement of the noun phrase &ldquo;the alkaloid physostigmine&rdquo; immediately after the modifying phrase illogically and confusingly suggests that the alkaloid physostigmine itself (not the synthesis of it) was named as one of the greatest achievements by a US chemist in the past hundred years.

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