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Verbal·Standard English Conventions·Form, Structure, and Sense
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English poet and Shakespeare contemporary John Donne        much admired during his lifetime (1572-1631) and in the decades that followed, had, at the time of their enthusiastic rediscovery by the early twentieth-century modernists, been essentially gathering dust for the intervening 250 years.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
‘s works,
B
‘s works were
C
‘s works, were
D
‘s works had been