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Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.
(A) as old as any of their supposed
(B) older than any of their supposed
(C) as old as their supposed
(D) older than any of their supposedly
(E) as old as their supposedly
sorry to post OA: B, but my concern is to understand the difference between B&D. Help.
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25 Apr 2008, 08:15
saravalli wrote: Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.
(A) as old as any of their supposed
(B) older than any of their supposed
(C) as old as their supposed
(D) older than any of their supposedly
(E) as old as their supposedly
sorry to post OA: B, but my concern is to understand the difference between B&D. Help. I think supposed refers to predecessors, whereas supposedly refers to Meditteranean. Therefore, supposed makes sense here as the sentence is speaking more about age rather than heritage/characteristics.
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25 Apr 2008, 08:39
supposedly=adverb--> modifier to a verb, an adverb, a clause, a phrase, a sentence, an adjective supposed=adjective--> modifier to a noun As you can see, what comes after "supposed" is a noun and should thus be preceded by an adjective. However, "supposed" could also be used as a past participle in which case you would have a sentence as follows: You are supposed to eat what I tell you to eat.As you can see, "supposed" here plays the role of a past participle (to be + participle). As such, you will have "supposed" in front of a verb (to eat)
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B: “Supposed” functions as participle and can function as adjective. Therefore it can modify the “Mediterranean predecessors” D: “supposedly” functions as adverb and cannot modify the noun/pronoun – in this case “Mediterranean predecessors” You can find more information at: http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/verbs.htm#participle
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B changes the meaning. older than does not include as old as. Could anybody clarify?
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18 Jul 2010, 12:53
B is correct. supposed (M processors) means that it wasn't sure that they were predecessors. Hence "supposed predecessors". May be monuments in M are not predecessors of those found in Brittany but a branch - who knows? because the carbon dating reveals Brittany's to be older - kinda similar to child is older than the "supposed father"  noboru wrote: B changes the meaning. older than does not include as old as.
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18 Jul 2010, 13:49
it is between B and D.
before reading the posts I did not understand the difference between 'supposed' and 'supposedly'.
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Not very clear why B but not C , Any idea
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Re: SC - Carbon-14 [#permalink]
29 Apr 2011, 03:53
Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors. (A) as old as any of their supposed (B) older than any of their supposed (C) as old as their supposed (D) older than any of their supposedly (E) as old as their supposedly Here one thing seems to be certain that predecessors are Mediterranean, and that why an adjective is used before the noun (Mediterranean). As per my understanding if we used supposedly it creates some kind of doubt as if we are not sure whether predecessors were Mediterranean or not. So answer has to be B.
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Re: SC - Carbon-14 [#permalink]
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agold wrote: saravalli wrote: Carbon-14 dating reveals that the megalithic monuments in Brittany are nearly 2,000 years as old as any of their supposed Mediterranean predecessors.
(A) as old as any of their supposed
(B) older than any of their supposed
(C) as old as their supposed
(D) older than any of their supposedly
(E) as old as their supposedly
sorry to post OA: B, but my concern is to understand the difference between B&D. Help. I think supposed refers to predecessors, whereas supposedly refers to Meditteranean. Therefore, supposed makes sense here as the sentence is speaking more about age rather than heritage/characteristics. Hi friends, Please explain this explanation. Thanx.
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03 Mar 2013, 02:33
Can anybody please explain why can't it be "as old as"?
A & B are correct grammatically.
B changes the meaning. Why can't the two monuments be equal in age?
I thought we were asked to go by the original meaning of the sentence. So I chose A. But I am confused now.
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