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Verbal·Standard English Conventions·Form, Structure, and Sense
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In Hafez’s Divan, the writer muses on love, faith, and protest. So impactful is this particular work by Hafez, a Persian lyric poet whose authorial perspective was at once mystical and critical, that its ruminations on fourteenth-century Persian life __________ Iranian society hundreds of years later.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
is influencing
B
influences
C
influence
D
has influenced