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Verbal·Standard English Conventions·Form, Structure, and Sense

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Following the formation of the European Union (EU) that same year, the organizers of the 1992 Tour de France wanted the bike race to reflect the cross-national flow of people and trade that the EU had made possible. The resulting course was 2,500 miles long __________ seven separate borders of neighboring countries, modeled a vision of the EU’s unifying aims.

Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?

A

and, crossed

B

and had crossed

C

and crossed

D

and, crossing