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During the last century, whaling voyages departed regularly from the New England states, and because each voyage normally extends for years, the hold was packed with supplies before a whaling ship set sail.


A. and because each voyage normally extends for years

B. and because each trip was long

C. and because each voyage normally extended for years

D. and while these were long trips

E. and because the voyage had lasted for years



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C. The original underlined portion contains a verb tense error. The verbs extends in choice A and has lasted in choice E are inconsistent with the past tense established through the rest of the sentence. Choice C supplies the simple past tense, extended, which agrees with the other verbs in the sentence. Choices B and D, while grammatically correct, substitute the vaguer long for the phrase for years.
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