Question

select the best version of the underlined part of the sentence. because jean rhys grew up in the west indies island of dominica and was educated there; this served as excellent background material for her most successful novel, wide sargasso sea, which is set in the west indies. there; this served as there; thus giving her there, and therefore she had there, she had

Explanation:

• The original sentence has a semicolon - comma error. A semicolon is used to separate two independent clauses. Here, “Because Jean Rhys grew up...there” is a dependent clause (due to “Because”), so a semicolon is incorrect.
• Option “there; thus giving her” creates a fragment after the semicolon. “Thus giving her...” is a non - finite clause and not an independent clause.
• Option “there, and therefore she had” is wordy. “And therefore” is redundant as “therefore” already implies a causal relationship.
• Option “there, she had” corrects the punctuation error. The comma is used to separate the dependent clause “Because Jean Rhys grew up...there” from the independent clause “she had...”.

Answer:

there, she had