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03 Apr 2021, 00:19
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Virginie
Look at the sentence structure.
In E, the core sentence is "the Incan highway was over 2,500 miles long"
Before that and after that we have some additional information.
We will never use a comma after HIGHWAY in the sentence 'the Incan highway was over 2,500 miles long'.
The problems in the other answer choices are mostly about the sentence structure.
C and D do not contain a core sentence at all.
A is left incomplete after the WHICH
Problems in B are more subtle: One is that WHICH seems to refer to LENGTH rather than to HIGHWAY
Hope this clarifies your doubt. Please ask if it does not
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03 Apr 2021, 04:07
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Hi vv65 and thanks for your help one more time
I do agree that the other sentences are wrong
and I do agree it would be a non-sense to add a comma in the sentence "the Incan highway was over 2,500 miles long"
But here the sentence is in a different form, because of the words at the beginning :
"the greatest road system [at that time], the Incan highway was over 2,500 miles long"
This seems odd to me, I feel like something is missing and I would rather have written something like
"the greatest road system [at that time], called the Incan highway, was over 2,500 miles long"
but maybe I am confused because of my native language
=> could you confirm we can use the response structure in proper english without adding any comma/word..?
03 Apr 2021, 16:18
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In E, the subject of the sentence is 'The Inca Highway'
The phrase 'the greatest road system at that time' is a modifier that describes the Inca Highway.
There's nothing wrong with that!
'How you would have written it' isn't wrong either.
But it can be dangerous to be thinking of how you would have written something. Doing so can prevent you from evaluating the answer choice properly.
Mean to say, I hope you chose E despite your doubts. And it's good that you are clarifying your doubt.
Take this pair:
- The reigning Wimbledon champion, Simona Halep withdrew from the Miami Open because of a shoulder injury.
- The reigning Wimbledon champion, Simona Halep, withdrew from the Miami Open because of a shoulder injury.
The first of these is like answer E. The subject of the sentence is 'Simona Halep'.
The second is more like your version. The subject of the sentence is 'the reigning champion'.
These are the two core sentences, and both are correct:
- Simona Halep withdrew from the Miami Open.
- The reigning Wimbledon champion withdrew from the Miami Open.
Or if we take your example:
- The best airplane built in the XXth century, [called] the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was made from titanium.
- The best airplane built in the XXth century, the Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird, was made from titanium.
In this case the two sentences are
- The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird was made from titanium.
- The best airplane built in the XXth century was made from titanium.
Both of these are grammatical! An author could choose either, depending on what he wanted to emphasize.
BTW we do not need the word CALLED (in your example). I don't think it's wrong, but it just makes the sentence sound awkward.
