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

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In the list “Adorable Things” from Sei Shonagon’s Pillow Book, the author delights in baby sparrows, a face drawn on a melon, and a young courtier in ceremonial garb. So shrewd an observer is Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting to Empress Teishi, that her book’s musings on tenth-century Japanese courtly life __________ readers a thousand years later.

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

A

has fascinated

B

fascinates

C

is fascinating

D

fascinate