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Because fish look through water, their eyes are very different from a mammal.

from a mammal
from a mammal’s
from that of a mammal
than that of a mammal
than is a mammal’s.

Can someone help me understand the answer from this?

From A we can infer, we want to compare eyes of fish with eyes of mammals. This is logical so we can go with this meaning.

A is wrong because it is comparing eyes of fish with mammal

B is right. Comparing eyes of fish with eyes of mammals


C that is singular, eyes is plural. We have no logical antecedent for that.

D that again


E comparing with mammal

Mammal’s compensate singular and plural and while compare the eyes it make sense so b is right I hope so

SC Questions November - 2 :

Q1. Researchers have discovered a new species of sparrow that lives only in cypress groves, almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees and whose coloring is completely different from all other sparrows.


(A) that lives only in cypress groves, almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows in cypress trees and whose coloring is completely different from

(B) that lives only in cypress groves, is almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees, and has coloring completely different from that of

(C) living only in cypress groves, is almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees, and whose coloring is completely different from

(D) that lives only in cypress groves, almost wholly dependent on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees, and whose coloring is completely different from that of

(E) living only in cypress groves, depending almost wholly on the berries of a certain type of vine that grows on cypress trees, and having coloring completely different than



Difficulty - Hard

Q2. Before realist forms became prominent during the Archaic period, the proportions of sculpture were based on theory rather than observation.


(A) Before realist forms became prominent during the Archaic period, the proportions of sculpture were based on theory rather than observation.

(B) Before realist forms became prominent during the Archaic period, the proportions of sculpture had been based on theory rather than observation.

(C) Before realist forms had become prominent during the Archaic period, the proportions of sculpture were based on theory rather than observation.

(D) Before realist forms had become prominent during the Archaic period, the proportions of sculpture had been based on theory rather than observation.

(E) Before realist forms became prominent during the Archaic period, the proportions of sculpture were being based on theory rather than observation.


Difficulty - Hard

Can somebody please confirm if the answer is C?

It seems like A rather than C

I disagree. I think it is B

No need to use past perfect here since we have "before"

The answer is B
In B, you have "became" as the past tense and then "had been based" in past perfect tense. Past perfect tense is used to refer to the event that happened before the reference past event.
So your reference past event here is the realist forms that became prominent. The event that happened before that reference must be in past perfect tense.

I don’t think the "Before" changes the need for past perfect

Past perfect is properly used when there is no clear timeline

What? Where did you read/hear that?

So a sentence like, I left my friends house and grabbed a pizza. Which event came first?

I think answer is A. The words “realist forms” and “proportions of sculpture” are plural nouns so they require plural verbs became and were.