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Question
In the following sentence, some part of the sentence or the entire sentence is underlined. Beneath sentence, you will find four ways of phrasing the underlined part. Choose the most appropriate option given in the sentence given below that is the best version than the underlined part of the sentence.
Many of them chiselled from solid rock centuries ago the mountainous regions are dotted with hundreds of monasteries:
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The mountainous regions are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of them chiselled from solid rock centuries ago.
The mountainous regions are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of which are chiselled from solid rock centuries ago.
chiselled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions are dotted with many hundreds of monasteries.
Hundreds of monasteries, many of them chiselled from solid rock centuries ago, are dotting the mountainous regions.
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Solution
The mountainous regions are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of which are chiselled from solid rock centuries ago.
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