|Question 10Verbal

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The Gorno-Altai Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, whose residents mainly spoke Altai, was one of many nominally autonomous Soviet        by giving these restive republics the right to assert their prerogatives, President Mikhail Gorbachev likely hastened the Soviet Union's breakup.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
republics; established along ethnolinguistic lines
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republics established along ethnolinguistic lines,
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republics. Established, along ethnolinguistic lines,
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republics established along ethnolinguistic lines;
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