Hi
GMATNinja and other experts.
There is a doubt in the verb-ed modifiers. The correct choice when plugged in with the sentence appears as:-
Quote:
Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of the Maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete.
After deconstructing the sentence I got confused with the role of "took" . Is it "the army of terra-cotta warriors" that took the artisans more than 36 years?
or is the sentence being said from a third person perspective? Else "took" looks as if modifying "the army of terra cotta warriors" rather and how could "the army of terra cotta warriors" does the action of taking?
There is one more example of
OG where the correct choice is as follows:-
Quote:
Combining enormous physical strength with higher intelligence, the Neanderthals appear to have been equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their path, but their relatively sudden disappearance during the paleolithic era indicates that an inability to adapt to some environmental change led to their extinction.
Here, the sentence,
Quote:
the Neanderthals appear to have been equipped to face any obstacle the environment could put in their path
sounds as if it has been said by a 3rd person , else how can neanderthals themselves appear?
Please clear this doubt I am stuck with such kind of sentence correction question and I cant decipher the action in the sentence.
Thanks,
Ankush