|Question 15Verbal

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The Proto-Uralic language, common ancestor of thirty-seven Eurasian languages with similar linguistic properties, like all protolanguages,        hypothetical: there's no direct evidence these ancestral languages actually existed.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
are,
A
have been,
B
is,
C
being,
D