Raxit85 wrote:
Thousands of years before the Europeans began crossing the vast Atlantic by ship, the first immigrants who arrived in North America and the land that would later become the United States Native American ancestors crossed a narrow strip of land connecting Asia to North America some 20,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.
A) Native American ancestors crossed
B) Native American ancestors crossing
C) were Native American ancestors who crossed
D) had been Native American ancestors, crossing
E) were Native American ancestors crossed
Thousands of years before the Europeans began crossing the vast Atlantic by ship, the first immigrants who arrived in North America and the land that would later become the United States
Native American ancestors crossed a narrow strip of land connecting Asia to North America some 20,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.
If we look at the clause starting with the first immigrants..
the first immigrants
who arrived in North America and the land that would later become the United States Native American ancestors crossed a narrow strip of land connecting Asia to North America some 20,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.
The Verb crossed can correctly refer to immigrants..
But the meaning is illogical -the first immigrants who arrived in North America and the land
that would later become the United States Native American ancestors crossed a narrow strip of land connecting Asia to North America some 20,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age.
The land is becoming ancestors??Quote:
A) Native American ancestors crossed
As shown above
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B) Native American ancestors crossing
Meaning error as in A.
Also, now there is no Verb. It is converted into a modifier.- crossed to crossing
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C) were Native American ancestors who crossed
Now, the verb is shifted to were and makes the correct sense.
the first immigrants
who arrived in North America and the land that would later become the United States were Native American ancestors
who crossed a narrow strip of land connecting Asia to North America some 20,000 years ago, during the last Ice Age. Also, who crossed... correctly modifies Native American ancestors.
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D) had been Native American ancestors, crossing
there is no use of past perfect here. and modifier 'crossing..' is not correctly used.
E) were Native American ancestors crossednow two verbs WERE and CROSSED cannot be used without a conjunction.
C
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