Verse 47: Chosen as the nation’s capital at the end of the American Civil War, ______the city of over a million people.
“Chosen as the nation’s capital at the end of the American Civil War” is a shortened form of the adverbial clause.
The sentence lacks a subject.
=> Answer A (Chosen as the nation’s capital at the end of the American Civil War, Washington, DC is now a city of more than a million people.)
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