Item — sat-dog

Medium Reading and Writing · Standard English Conventions · None · MCQ

The team was excited to see the first signs of growth, the seedlings’ tiny green leaves pushing out of the soil. After a few weeks, the seedlings had grown tall enough to be transplanted into larger pots, where they could continue to thrive.

Which choice best maintains the sentence structure and consistent verb tense in the passage?

A
tiny green leaves pushing out of the soil; after a few weeks, the seedlings had grown tall enough to be transplanted into larger pots, where they continued to thrive.
B
tiny green leaves pushing out of the soil. After a few weeks, the seedlings had grown tall enough to be transplanted into larger pots where they could continue to thrive.
C
tiny green leaves pushing out of the soil; after a few weeks, the seedlings had grown tall enough to be transplanted into larger pots, where they could continue to thrive.
D
tiny green leaves pushing out of the soil, after a few weeks, the seedlings had grown tall enough to be transplanted into larger pots, where they could continue to thrive.

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