rezalotif wrote:
DmitryFarber wrote:
manishk30 What do you mean? The sentence indicates that it is a currently living organism.
In any case, even if we imagined that the fungus
used to extend further than it does now, there's no option for that in the answer choices. We'd need something like "which extended." Otherwise we are saying that someone or something "extended" it, and that doesn't make sense.
But how do we rationalise that spawned is acting as a modifier and not a verb, and extended is acting as a verb and not a modifier?
When the verb acts as a
past participle modifier, it does so in the passive sense.
A spawned B.
spawned - Verb
Active. A did the spawning.
A, spawned by B, is huge.
spawned - modifier (tells us something about A. The action of spawning was not done by A. It is in passive sense.)
It is a filigree
spawned by B and
extended for more than 30 acres.
spawned by B - Passive sense. Filigree did not do the spawning. Modifier
extended - Active sense. The filigree is the one that extends for more than 30 acres. Then extended acts as a verb.
Hence incorrect.
With
present participle modifier, this distinction is much easier. When it acts as a verb, it uses a helping verb. When it acts as a modifier, it doesn't use a helping verb.
It is a filigree
spawned by B and
extending for more than 30 acres.
'extending' doesn't have a helping verb so it is a modifier. Correct.
. I spent a couple hours trying to find the answer to this and your answers have made it a lot clearer.
So just to confirm, theoretically speaking, if we had 'extended by b' would that make it passive and a modifier and hence it could work in terms of parallelism?