Question

across the institute for urban linguistics 2022 exhibition catalog, along with interviews, glossaries, and festival programs from recife and maputo, is a single index entry for street voices, a 1989 anthology edited by mara diniz. the entry lists 14 ____ a 1991 companion volume used in the institutes graduate seminar series.

16 mark for review
which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of standard english?
a contributors and cross - references
b contributors, and cross - references
c contributors and cross - referencing
d contributors, and cross - referencing

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze parallelism and punctuation. The sentence lists items related to the index entry. "contributors" (noun, plural) and "cross - references" (noun, plural) are parallel in form. The comma before "and" in options B and D is incorrect here as we don't need a comma to separate two items in a simple list. Option C has "cross - referencing" (a verb - derived noun or gerund), which is not parallel to "contributors" (a simple noun). So option A with two plural nouns and correct lack of a comma before "and" is correct.

Answer:

A. contributors and cross - references