<p>Jesse passed the California bar exam last year, and he has been practicing law in California ever since.</p>
<p>A. As it is
E. and since then is practicing law there</p>
<p>Why isn't E correct?</p>
<p>There is no location defined in the first part …“Jesse passed the California bar exam last year”</p>
<p>It can’t be E because the “,” and then a conjunction, “and” in this case, means that there must be two independent clauses joined together, and E is clearly not a independent clause.</p>
<p>“there” is an ambiguous pronoun and it doesn’t trace back to a location(antecendent). </p>
<p>Pronoun-antecedent rule.</p>
<p>Also, I’m not sure about this one, but isn’t “since then is” wrong? I think the correct wording is “since then has been”</p>