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Verbal·Standard English Conventions·Form, Structure, and Sense
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Blaise Pascal’s Pascaline device—conceived, like William Oughtred’s earlier Circular Slide Rule, amid the seventeenth-century push to replace manual calculations with faster and more accurate machine-based methods—__________ among the first reproducible calculating machines.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
being
B
were
C
was
D
are