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Verbal·Standard English Conventions·Form, Structure, and Sense
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The Roman historian Suetonius’s De vita caesarum, a biography of the Roman Empire’s first leaders, is an extant work: it can still be read. By contrast, Suetonius’s book on miscellaneous topics, Pratum, no copies of which __________ is a lost work: it can be accessed only indirectly, through references to it in extant works.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
A
having survived,
B
to survive,
C
survive,
D
surviving.