Choose the most suitable option to replace the highlighted part of the sentence: The country has at least twenty colleges of whom only six are officially recognized.
Of which only six are officially recognized
The highlighted clause qualifies the noun "colleges", so both the relative pronoun and the verb inside the clause must agree with that antecedent.
Colleges are things, not people, and English uses "of which" to refer back to non-human antecedents, keeping "of whom" for persons; this at once rules out the original "of whom".
The subject of the relative clause is "six", which is plural in number, so it needs the plural verb "are" rather than the singular "has".
The recognising is something done to the colleges by an authority, so the passive construction "are officially recognized" is the appropriate form here.
Putting the correct pronoun and the correct plural verb together gives "Of which only six are officially recognized", which is option D.
Options A and B both keep the wrong pronoun "of whom", which cannot refer to colleges; and option C uses the singular "has", which fails to agree with the plural subject "six".
Since only option D fixes both the pronoun and the number agreement, it alone is grammatically sound.
Hence the most suitable replacement is Of which only six are officially recognized.
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