A verb form question tests whether a blank needs a main verb or a form that only describes. Then find the blank's own subject and read to the period. A main verb shows tense, while a form that doesn't show tense can't complete a clause on its own. Words like which can start a clause, a group with its own subject and verb. Check each clause's verb, because a verb from another clause may not complete it.
Hints
- Hint 1
Look at the word right after the comma. What noun does which point back to?
- Hint 2
Read from which to the period and check for a main verb in that part. Does launched belong to that part or to the words before the comma?
Step-by-step
Find the verb in each clause
Step 1Locate the first main verb
A small but dedicated team is the subject of the opening part. What did the team do? It launched a literary magazine, which gives this part its main verb, the verb telling what the subject did. The words before the comma make a full sentence, but the blank's form depends on which part of the sentence it belongs to.
- Step 2
Find the blank's own clause
After the comma, which points back to the magazine. Does the team's verb also complete these words? No: this word starts a clause, a group with its own subject and verb, while launched belongs to the earlier clause. The clause about the magazine needs its own main verb, and no verb after the blank supplies one.
- Step 3
Supply that clause's verb
Which form can complete which ______ articles as a clause? An -ing, to, or having form can't supply a main verb on its own. The verb features completes the clause because it says what the magazine includes and gives the clause the verb it needs. Choice C.