Digital PSAT Reading and Writing Practice Question 282: Answer and Explanation
Question: 282
Reading also stimulates the____________________ consider what it would have been like to be at some historical event, or to form a picture of what one could accomplish in life.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
- A. imagination to identify with a hero in a story, to
- B. imagination: to identify with a hero in a story, to
- C. imagination; to identify with a hero in a story, to
- D. imagination, to identify with a hero in a story to
Correct Answer: B
Explanation:
B. The independent clause is “Reading also stimulates the imagination.” The sentence best functions by using a colon and then listing the various ways it stimulates the imagination. Choice B does this perfectly. Choice A is a run-on sentence. Choice C incorrectly uses a semicolon; there must be a full sentence on both sides of the semicolon, but there isn't a full sentence after the semicolon here. Choice D incorrectly attaches a list to the independent clause.
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