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Review: A Christmas Carol
Explanation
Creating a filter: in this question, the words "not owed"
are in the wrong order. The fame is indeed owed to something; what we are
negating is what it's owed to, and so the "not" should come after the verb and
modify Two Cities.
Applying the filter: we eliminate (B) also, so we're left
with (C) through (E).
Finding objective defects: parallelism further dictates
that (C) is the correct answer. The fame is owed to the book A
Christmas Carol. Note also that including a verb such as "is," as (B) and
(E) do, creates an ungrammatical structure, a phrase with a conjunction and a
verb but no grammatical subject. The correct answer is (C).
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