Question

in order to retrieve and study the bones of the early ______ paleoanthropologist hired a team of explorers who were thin enough to fit through the cave’s extremely narrow chute. which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of standard english? choose 1 answer: a hominids. the b hominids; the c hominids, the d hominids the

Explanation:

1. The first clause is a complete independent sentence that needs to be separated properly from the second independent clause.
2. Option A uses a period to correctly split the two full sentences, and capitalizes the start of the second sentence correctly. Option B uses a semicolon but incorrectly uses a lowercase "the". Option C uses a comma which creates a comma splice error. Option D has no punctuation, creating a run-on sentence.

Answer:

A. hominids. The