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Read the following four advanced sentences containing potential morphosyntactic and lexical errors: I. Hardiy had the keynote speaker stepped onto the podium when the auditorium erupted into tumultuous applause, and no sooner the lights flickered due to a sudden power surge. II. The committee, despite having divergent opinions regarding the allocation of funds, eventually reached a consensus that satisfied each of the participating members. III. Neither the lead investigator nor her diligent assistants was able to uncover any definitive physical evidence linking the suspect to the clandestine financial transactions. IV. Having been thoroughly scrutinized by the editorial board, the manuscript was returned to the author with instructions to rewrite the introductory chapter and rectifying structural incoherencies. Identify the option that correctly evaluates the grammatical validity of sentences I, II, III, and IV according to standard English grammar and Grammar principles.
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Detailed Explanation
Let's analyze each sentence in detail:
- **Sentence I is incorrect:** The correlative structure involving 'no sooner' requires an inverted auxiliary clause followed by 'than' (e.g., *'no sooner did the lights flicker'* or *'no sooner had the lights flickered'*). Furthermore, the second clause lacks a main verb entirely after the subject 'the lights'.
- **Sentence II is correct:** The collective noun 'committee' takes a singular verb ('reached') because it acts as a unified entity, and the distributive pronoun 'each' correctly governs the singular prepositional complement 'of the participating members'.
- **Sentence III is incorrect:** According to the principle of proximity in subject-verb agreement when subjects are joined by correlative disjunctions like 'neither... nor', the verb must agree with the *closer* subject noun phrase. Here, the closer subject is 'her diligent assistants' (plural), so the verb must be plural ('were'), not singular ('was').
- **Sentence IV is incorrect:** This sentence violates the rule of grammatical parallelism in infinitive complements. The phrase 'to rewrite' is governed by 'instructions', so the coordinated second action must take the bare infinitive form 'rectify' to match 'rewrite', rather than the gerund 'rectifying'.
Thus, only Sentence II is completely free of errors, making Option B the correct choice according to standard English grammar rules.
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