Question

across the marston librarys online catalog, along with not only rehearsal tapes from a 2019 workshop in kyoto but also the quartets annotated parts, ____ a note that the lunaris quartet recorded all six of kaoru ishidas string quartets in 2019. first released on the label vireo sound in march 2021, the recordings were later used in a seminar at the university of torontos faculty of music.
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which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of standard english?
a appear
b appears
c have appeared
d appearing

Explanation:

To solve this, we analyze subject - verb agreement. The subject of the verb is "a note" (the main subject, as the phrase "along with...parts" is a prepositional phrase and does not affect the subject - verb agreement). Since "a note" is singular, the verb should be singular. "Appear" is plural, "have appeared" is plural (present perfect), "appearing" is a gerund/participle and not a main verb here. "Appears" is the singular present - tense verb that agrees with the singular subject "a note".

Answer:

B. appears