Usage about WHICH

[emily_huanbj]

From the bark of the paper birch tree the Menomini crafted a canoe about twenty feet long and two feet wide, with small ribs and rails of cedar, which could carry four persons or eight hundred pounds of baggage so light that a person could easily portage it around impeding rapids.

(A) baggage so light
(B) baggage being so light
(C) baggage, yet being so light
(D) baggage, and so light
(E) baggage yet was so light

OA: E
Hi Ron, I am convinced that "could" is in parallelism with " was so light", the parallelism is yet, which is semantically correct.
However, I am confused with the usage of WHICH. Obviously, the correct answer(E) allows WHICH to modify the canoe, which is too far to touch.
Accroding to your explaination, I remember "which" stands for the ELIGIBLE noun that's closest to the comma.by "eligible", which means that the noun has to AGREE IN TERMS OF SINGULAR/PLURAL with the FOLLOWING VERB.
Doesn't the above rule work in this issue?
Pls clarify.

[RonPurewal]

hi, welcome to the forum. unfortunately, (a) this post is in the wrong folder and (b) it doesn't conform to the forum rules.

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please read the forum rules, at the top of every folder, before posting. thank you.

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please post this problem in the "general verbal" folder, with a citation of the original source (as required).

thanks.