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A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.
(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced
(B) that the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced
(C) the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable
(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people to be traceable
(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world’s five billion people
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25 Aug 2005, 09:17
A is also my answer.
All other options are either grammatically wrong or meaningless.
pjreddy_rec wrote: A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.
(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced
(B) that the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced
(C) the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable
(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people to be traceable
(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world’s five billion people
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Re: SC: A number of linguists contend [#permalink]
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A is also my answer.
All other options are either grammatically wrong or meaningless.
pjreddy_rec wrote: A number of linguists contend that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced back to a common root language.
(A) that all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people can be traced
(B) that the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages of which all can be traced
(C) the world’s five billion people speak thousands of languages which are all traceable
(D) all of the thousands of languages spoken by the world’s five billion people to be traceable
(E) the ability to trace all of the thousands of languages that are spoken by the world’s five billion people
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I like to go for B 'coz its in active voice. I dont find any mistake in the tense or other wise.
In case I'm wrong, please correct me.
Krishna
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ur reasoning is correct. active should be preferred over passive.
But here A seems better choice
Can any1 give the OA
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+1 A I think that the protagonists in this sentence are the languages. So, we can allow passive voice in this sentence. Passive voice is not always wrong.
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