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20 Apr 2021, 09:59
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In 1777, when news reached Colonel Ludington that the town of Danbury, Connecticut, was being looted and burned by British troops, his daughter Sybil rode forty miles through the night so that the soldiers of her father's regiment had been alerted to the danger.
A. so that the soldiers of her father's regiment had been alerted
B. so that the soldiers of her father's regiment may be alerted
C. alerting the soldiers of her father's regiment
D. and alerting the soldiers of her father's regiment
E. for alerting the soldiers of her father's regiment
A. so that the soldiers of her father's regiment had been alerted
B. so that the soldiers of her father's regiment may be alerted
C. alerting the soldiers of her father's regiment
D. and alerting the soldiers of her father's regiment
E. for alerting the soldiers of her father's regiment
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20 Apr 2021, 11:14
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Hello, angsha. What is the source of the question, if you do not mind my asking? In my view, the OA is flawed, but the rest of the answer choices all have their own problems. At a barebones level, (C) is saying that Sybil rode alerting the soldiers. I see the tag "Gerund" above the question, but the -ing phrase here is not a gerund, since it is not acting in the capacity of a noun. Rather, the phrase is a typical modifier, and a comma would make the difference between a correct and an incorrect sentence:
INCORRECT: Sybil rode alerting the soldiers.
CORRECT: Sybil rode, alerting the soldiers.
I am happy to see new questions on the forum, but I think they have to be scrutinized to ensure that they are what they seem, and this one appears a little off to me. ((A) and (B) have verb tense issues, as does (D) in alerting, while (E) is not idiomatically sound in saying that the girl rode for alerting.)
I hope you can provide a source. Thank you for posting, and good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
INCORRECT: Sybil rode alerting the soldiers.
CORRECT: Sybil rode, alerting the soldiers.
I am happy to see new questions on the forum, but I think they have to be scrutinized to ensure that they are what they seem, and this one appears a little off to me. ((A) and (B) have verb tense issues, as does (D) in alerting, while (E) is not idiomatically sound in saying that the girl rode for alerting.)
I hope you can provide a source. Thank you for posting, and good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
20 Apr 2021, 11:29
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Hello AndrewN. Thank you so much for spending your precious time on this quasi-flawed question.The source is https://www.cracksat.net/sat/ (I AM REALLY SORRY.I COULD NOT FIND HOW TO SPECIFY THIS SOURCE).
