Vasu49 wrote:
Harry, Ron and Hermione, who were racing against time, destroyed the remaining Horcruxes, while the students and teachers unite to defend Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
A) Harry, Ron and Hermione, who were racing against time, destroyed the remaining Horcruxes, while the students and teachers unite to defend Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
B) Harry, Ron and Hermione, who race against time to destroy the remaining Horcruxes, while the students and teachers unite to defend Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
C) Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time to destroy the remaining Horcruxes, while the students and teachers unite to defend Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
D) Harry, Ron and Hermione raced against time to destroy the remaining Horcruxes, while the students and teachers unite to defend Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
E) Harry, Ron and Hermione race against time to destroy the remaining Horcruxes, while the students and teachers united to defend Hogwarts against Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters.
race against time is an idiom , which means "a situation in which something has to be done very quickly"
Option A) ---> Indicates idiom as action "who were running against the time" -->
eliminatedOption B) ---> Indicates idiom as adjective "who race against the time to destroy" -->
eliminatedOption C) ---> Indicates idiom as idiom "race against the time to destroy" -->
AnswerOption D) ---> Indicates idiom as idiom "raced against the time to destroy, while" --> I understand the sentence is correct idiomatically but with a
while, the 2 clauses must be parallel in time. Suppose "The phone
rang while I
was doing the dishes" --- >
eliminatedOption E) ---> Same as D but 2nd clause is in past tense --->
eliminatedHope this helps