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Question 2 • 26-27 ERWC A/B 9800E 9801E

Read the sentence. Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit for the New York Yankees when he was thirty-seven years old in 2011 at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. Which is the best way to revise this complex sentence?

Answer

In 2011, Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit for the New York Yankees. At Yankee Stadium in the Bronx, he was thirty-seven years old.

Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit for the New York Yankees when he was thirty-seven years old playing at Yankee Stadium. In the Bronx.

Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit at age thirty-seven. In the Bronx at Yankee Stadium in 2011.

In 2011, Derek Jeter notched his 3,000th hit for the New York Yankees at Yankee Stadium in the Bronx. He was thirty-seven years old.

Explanation

Choice D clearly separates the details into two complete sentences. The first states when and where Derek Jeter recorded his 3,000th hit, and the second states his age. Choice A awkwardly makes it sound as though he was thirty-seven at Yankee Stadium, while B and C end with sentence fragments.

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