Grammar question

Test Preparation SAT Preparation
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2-[An odd friendship] in certain aspects, she being an outdoor enthusiast and he a dedicated bookworm.
a-
b-As an odd friendship
c-Their friendship being odd
d-Theirs was an odd friendship
e-having a friendship that was somewhat odd

3-The island of Madagascar,off the coast of Africa,is the habitat of more then 200,000 species of plants and [animals,many are not found anywhere] else on the planet.
a-
b-animals;many, not found anywhere
c-animals; of which man are not found anywhere
d-animals,many found nowhere
e- animals, finding many nowhere
Can someone please explain the correct answer ???

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  1. D. It's the only answer that is an independent clause, which is required here, since there is no clause after the comma.
  2. D. The original is a comma splice. B and c leave fragments after the semicolon. E implies that the island does the finding, which makes no sense. D creates an appositive, with past participle "found" modifying "many," and that's just fine
3

But D creates a run on sentence since the two independent clauses are connected only by a comma.
Even in number 3 . How can the answer be D when the two indp clauses are only connected by a comma.
@WasatchWriter

4

I think you are mistaking participles for finite verbs.

I know that “many found” looks like s-v, but its not. Read it like “many of which are found”

5

Ahhh okay I got question 3 but can you clarify question 2 ? @WasatchWriter

6

Number 2 is clearly D
The other choices don’t even have a verb, so therefore, don’t even come close to making a complete sentence

Number 3 is also D.
B & C use a semicolon incorrectly. E is wrong bcs the island cannot be “finding”

7

“she being” is not a subject with a finite verb. “he [being] a dedicated bookworm” also lacks a finite verb. So there is no clause of any kind after the comma in 2. That whole phrase is an absolute.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absolute_construction

8

Ahh okay. I got it

9

@gameplayer1233 and @WasatchWriter -

It’s also worth noting that (on the SAT at least) gerunds require genitive (possessive) pronouns/nouns, so “her being” is a permissible construction but “she being” never is.

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Thank you @marvin100