|Question 16Verbal

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Proto-Uralic—a protolanguage, or ancestral language of a family of descendant (daughter) languages—is said to be the common ancestor of all Uralic languages. This designation is ____ Proto-Uralic is only postulated, its characteristics being inferred from the linguistic properties of its thirty-seven daughters.
Which choice completes the text so that it conforms to the conventions of Standard English?
hypothetical, however:
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hypothetical, however;
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hypothetical: however,
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hypothetical, however,
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