China, (_____) economy has been transformed by technological innovation, is quickly gaining a competitive advantage over other countries.

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The question asks to fill in the blank in: 'China, (_____) economy has been transformed by technological innovation, is quickly gaining a competitive advantage over other countries.'

Option a: 'who' — This is incorrect because 'who' is a relative pronoun used for people, not for possessive relationships between a country and its economy. 'China, who economy' would be ungrammatical and confusing since economies belong to countries, not to people.

Option b: 'which' — This would create a nonrestrictive clause that does not properly express possession. 'China, which economy has been transformed...' incorrectly attaches the clause to 'China' or sounds like 'China' has an economy that has been transformed, but the structure is off and sounds ungrammatical. In English, we typically use a possessive relative pronoun to link the noun ('economy') to the possessor ('China'), not a nonpossessive relative pronoun here.

Option c: 'whose' — This is correct. 'Whose' is a possessive relative pronoun used to indicate that the economy belongs to China. The sentence reads smoothly as: 'China, whose economy has been transformed by technological innovation, is quickly gaining a competitive advantage over other countries.' This correctly conveys possession and keeps the relative clause nonrestrictive.

In summary, only option c ('whose') correctly expresses possession and yields a grammatical, natural sentence. Options a and b fail due to incorrect relative pronoun usage and misplaced attachment of the clause.

ME Mod4 Intake 2A - 14 Apr 2025 - 4 Jul 2025 Activity 4.5B - Reduced Relative Clauses Review Quiz

China, (_____) economy has been transformed by technological innovation, is quickly gaining a competitive advantage over other countries.

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