Skywalker18 wrote:
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aragonn wrote:
Project SC Butler: Day 38: Sentence Correction (SC1)
For SC butler Questions Click HereMost nations regard their airspace
as extending upward as high as an aircraft can fly; no specific altitude, however, has been officially recognized as a boundary.
(A) as extending
(B) as the extent
(C) to be an extent
(D) to be an extension
(E) to extend
Official Explanation:
Choice A is best because it is idiomatically correct; regard, when its meaning indicates seeing, looking at, or conceiving of something in a particular way, is paired with as in the idiomatic construction regard X as y, Choices C, D, and E violate the regard, , , as construction, In choices B, C, and D, the nouns extent and extension cannot be modified by the adverbial phrase that follows: a verb form such as extending is needed,
In choices B, C, and D, the nouns extent and extension cannot be modified by the adverbial phrase that follows: a verb form such as extending is needed -- Can someone explain this part of the OE?
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Skywalker18 , the OE writer is not very clear about the issue you caught (and as usual, it's a good catch).
Quote:
In choices B, C, and D, the nouns extent and extension cannot be modified by the adverbial phrase that follows: a verb form such as extending is needed -- Can someone explain this part of the OE?
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Adverbs can modify verb-ING (verb forms). Adverbs cannot modify nouns.The OE writer means to say that in their use of the idiom
Regard X as Y,
B, C, and D are
improperly modified because all three list "
Y" as a noun, which cannot be followed by an adverbial phrase.
In the sentence,
Y is modified by the adverb phrase
upward as high as an aircraft can flyA noun cannot be modified by an adverb.The OE states that "a verb form such as
extending" is needed.
In other words, option A has that "verb form": extending.
A participle, a verbING, CAN be modified by an adverb.
• The idiom is
Regard X as YThe idiom has this construction:
regard + object + AS + noun/noun phrase OR adjective/adjective phrase OR gerund/(verbING)• Errors in B, C, and DB, C, and D list
Y as a noun
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An adverb/adverbial phrase cannot modify a noun. -- An adverb can modify an adjective.
-- An adverb can modify a gerund/participle (because a gerund/participle, a verbING, retains verb qualities)
(An adverb can modify many more parts of speech; the three listed are the three that
Y can be in
Regard X as Y)
Correct answer A) Most nations regard their airspace
as extending (verbING) upward as high as an aircraft can fly (adverbial phrase) . . .
So, on one hand, (B) correctly follows
Regard X as Y. (B uses "as.")
On the other hand, (B) fails because
Y= the noun
extent, and
extent cannot be modified by an adverbial phrase
(C) and (D) violate
Regard X as Y. In addition to that error, (C) and (D) contain the same error as that in B.
In (C) and (D) the
Y part of the idiom is
extent and
extension, respectively, both of which are nouns.
The rule that adverbs cannot modify nouns is needed to eliminate B.
We don't need the rule for C and D.
The author included C and D in that part of the OE because they contain the same error as B does.
Hope that helps.