Which one is correct and why? Antarctica is covered by a huge ice cap .......... 70 percent of the earth's fresh water. A) containing B) contains I myself think that both of them could be correct; A

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Which one is correct and why? Antarctica is covered by a huge ice cap .......... 70 percent of the earth's fresh water. A) containing B) contains I myself think that both of them could be correct; A can come as an adj and describe the huge ice cap; and B can come as a verb and make a relative clause. So I got confused. Plz someone tell me the right answer with its logical reason. Actually I've already asked this but couldn't be satisfied with the answer. Thanks

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A is correct, but B is not. You're right that A is an adjective that describes the state of the ice cap. To make B correct, it requires a relative pronoun (either 'which' or 'that'). It needs the relative pronoun to be the subject of the verb 'contains'. In English, a subject is always necessary. Therefore, the correction would look like this: Antarctica is covered by a huge ice cap which contains 70 percent of the earth's fresh water.

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