MANY years ago, a prestigious testing organization in the United States had to rescore the test papers of over 500,000 test-takers when it found out that one of its grammar questions could be answered in two ways. The problematic passage in the error identification test was this:

"Toni Morrison's genius enables (A) her to create novels (B) that arise from (C) and express the injustice African Americans (D) have endured. (E) No error."

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