OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:
You should see the logical problems with choice A: “the publication of” the book didn’t sell 200,000 copies – the book itself did. So A is incorrect. And because choices B and C make the same mistake, they’re eliminated, also. Choice D is on the right track until “…and published in 2006”. That portion needs a verb in front of it (“was published” or “had been published”), and without that is just a sentence fragment. Choice E commits none of these errors,
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You should see the logical problems with choice A: “the publication of” the book didn’t sell 200,000 copies – the book itself did. So A is incorrect. And because choices B and C make the same mistake, they’re eliminated, also. Choice D is on the right track until “…and published in 2006”. That portion needs a verb in front of it (“was published” or “had been published”), and without that is just a sentence fragment. Choice E commits none of these errors,
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