Question

Nothing grows as well in Kentucky as burley tobacco, being the state's chief agricultural crop.

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Answer 1

The sentence should be corrected to: 'Nothing grows as well in Kentucky as burley tobacco, the state's chief agricultural crop.' This avoids grammatical ambiguity and accurately conveys the intended meaning.

Step-by-step explanation:

The sentence "Nothing grows as well in Kentucky as burley tobacco, being the state's chief agricultural crop." needs a correction to clarify the meaning and maintain grammatical consistency. The appropriate correction would be "burley tobacco, the state's chief agricultural crop," because it correctly establishes that burley tobacco is Kentucky's chief agricultural crop without implying a cause-and-effect relationship that 'being' might suggest.