Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: Sound can travel through water for enormous distances, prevented from

C is correct - Here, acoustic energy is effectively modified by the participial prevented from dissipating. . .

This sentence opens with a statement that sound can travel long distances through water and then explains why that is so: water layers in the ocean prevent acoustic energy from dissipating. Because dissipating is an intransitive verb, acoustic energy cannot be its object.

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