Which of the following choices best improves the underlined portion of the sentence below? If the sentence is ok as is, choose (A).
Considered to be his greatest work, the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky penned the novel “Crime and Punishment” that influenced subsequent writers like Franz Kafka and Ernest Hemingway.
A. the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky penned the novel “Crime and Punishment” that
B. the novel “Crime and Punishment”, written by Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky,
C. the novel “Crime and Punishment”, being written by the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky,
D. the Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, upon writing the novel “Crime and Punishment”,
E. Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment”
This sentence begins with a dependent clause, the subject of which is the novel “Crime and Punishment.” When you begin a sentence with such a clause, the subject of that clause must come immediately after the comma. Knowing this rule allows us to rule out choices (A), (D), and (E). That leaves (B) and (C). In (C), the word “being” is unnecessary, and needs to be omitted. The answer is (B).
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