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Covering acres with several secondary trunks, Indians worshipped the banyan trees as abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity, and rain-god appeasers.

  1. Indians worshipped the banyan trees as abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity, and rain-god appeasers

  2. Indians worshipped the banyan trees as abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity, and appeasers of the rain-god

  3. banyan trees were worshipped by Indians as being the abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity, and appeasers of the rain-god

  4. abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity and, appeasers of the rain-god, banyan trees were worshipped by Indians

  5. being the abode of the gods, harbingers of prosperity and appeasers of the rain-god, banyan trees were worshipped by Indians
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Correct; removes the error of misplaced modifier by putting 'banyan tress' after the defining phrase, and removes error of parallelism by correctly aligning the three elements (abode of gods, harbingers of prosperity, appeasers of rain-god)

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