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Any anyone please suggest how is the use of two simple past tense in the same sentence without a time marker is correct? Doesn't that makes the timing of the two events ambitious?
Scenario 1: GL was sold for largest value and sometime later it was auctioned for 57 million.
Senario 2: It was auctioned for 57 million and once sold in the auction, it became the largest value sculpture.
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Hi Blair15, please correct the typo in option B. Thanks !!

B) a 5,000-year-old Mesopotamian statue that once stood in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, was suctioned for $57 million, and it was the largest sum of money a sculpture ever sold for.
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Any anyone please suggest how is the use of two simple past tense in the same sentence without a time marker is correct? Doesn't that makes the timing of the two events ambitious?
Scenario 1: GL was sold for largest value and sometime later it was auctioned for 57 million.
Senario 2: It was auctioned for 57 million and once sold in the auction, it became the largest value sculpture.
An explanation would be helpful

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Hello souvik19,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, two simple past tense verbs can indeed be used together without time markers; such a usage simply conveys that both actions concluded in the past together; in this case, when the statue was auctioned for $57 million, at that moment $57 million became the largest sum of money a sculpture ever sold for.

We hope this helps.
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i couldn't eliminate between A & B, What is wrong in option A.... ?
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i couldn't eliminate between A & B, What is wrong in option A.... ?

Hello mdsaddamforgmat,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, Option A alters the meaning of the sentence through the phrase "auctioned for $57 million"; the construction of this phrase illogically implies that the statue took the action of auctioning; the intended meaning is that some second entity took the action of auctioning.

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I think the option B has typo error. Insteat of auctioned it says suctioned.
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I think the option B has typo error. Insteat of auctioned it says suctioned.
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