<p>Over the years, Cahokia people built more than one hundred earthen mounds of various sizes and functions around six open plazas, some of which remains can still be seen after five hundred years of erosion.</p>
<p>(A) some of which remains can still
(B) some of the remains of which still to
(C) the remains of some, which can still
(D) the remains of some of which still to
(E) the remains of some of which can still</p>
<p>E?
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<p>i say C but im mediocre at best when it comes to grammar</p>
<p>I say E...</p>
<p>I say E....</p>
<p>This is a hard one. They all look wrong to me. By the way, who are the Cahokia people? Sorry, but that's something that would bother me during the SAT's. </p>
<p>The sentence obviously sounds incorrect if you repeat to yourself silently. B and D both use the phrase, "of which still to...," which when used in the original sentence sounds horribly wrong. I would eliminate C because "the remains of some, which can still..." doesn't make sense. It's starting to make an idea with "the remains of some" but then it leaves that thought incomplete by switching to "which can still." So, I would just put E but I'm a novice at this stuff.</p>
<p>IT's E. you guys are SMART</p>
<p>why isn't it A?</p>
<p>It has to be E, right? Please tell me its E!</p>
<p>Edit: Wow, do I look dumb now! I swear I wrote my response before I saw the answer. ;)(I always have had bad timing!)</p>
<p>that was easy peezy</p>
<p>If it were A you would have to place the word 'and' between remains and can.</p>
<p>I said E. Yay, I'm rite.</p>
<p>I said its not A because "some of which remains can still be seen" well, I have never heard anybody say something like that. "The remains can still be seen", yes. "some of remains can still be seen"? No. Sorry, I just go by sound.</p>
<p>"some of which remains and can still be seen" makes more sense, as well. Remains would become a verb.</p>
<p>Where does this question come from?</p>
<p>You need to lead with the subject of the clause (remains) to be gramatically correct. Otherwise you use the particular wording so that you don't end with a preposition (as you would if it were at the end of a sentence). The reason you don't use "the remains, which can..." is because then you're ending your sentence before you've made your point. Then everything becomes a fragment. And on top of it all, most of the other answers don't make a bit of sense.</p>
<p>xiggi, this is from collegeboard's official SAT course. i only use the direct source like you have preached! :)</p>
<p>oh yea, i get why it's not A. My grammar is SO POOR i don't even know how "which" is used. It might also be becuase my parents are foreigners and they speak horrible english!</p>
<p>I thought it had to be E because all the other ones have incorrect subject verb agreement, like the subject is the remains, so which refers to the plural remains and so since some's plural/singular depends on what it is a part of, it must be "some of which remain" not "remains." Only C, D, E avoid this. C is a fragment, D improperly uses an infinitive, and only E is good.</p>
<p>E just sounds right :)</p>