In the early fourteenth centuruy, almost 200 years before

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In the early fourteenth centuruy, almost 200 years before Columbus reached the West Indies, and 250 years before the Reformation,  Europe had been Catholic and the Church continued to influenced virtually every phase of human life. 
A
B the Catholic Church continued to influence every phase of human life

C the Europe that had been Catholic was still influrenced in virtually every phase of human life by the Church

D Europe was Catholic and the Church influrenced virtually every phase of human life

E every phase of human life bore traces of the European influrence of the Catholic Churce

please explain your answer

anandnk · Answer

(B) is incomplete.
Ignoring (B) I would say (D) is the best.

Paul · Answer

Agree with D
A) wrong tense
B) missing information about Europe here
C) convoluted past perfect tense
E) "of the European influrence of the Catholic Church" is convoluted. Furthermore, double use of "of" is almost always wrong.

vkranthi7 · Answer

In the early fourteenth centuruy,  almost 200 years before Columbus reached the West Indies, and 250 years before the Reformation , Europe had been Catholic and the Church continued to influenced virtually every phase of human life. 

I will go with D, the part in colour is just fragments. So "In the early fourteenth centuruy europe was Catholic and the Church influrenced virtually every phase of human life. 
This is consice, correct tense and better then all other answers

srijay007 · Answer

Another vote for D to end the day :lol:

chung · Answer

yep 
 OA is D

thank for all answers

enigmatic007 · Answer

D it muzt be thn !

 Have fun :-D

In the early fourteenth centuruy, almost 200 years before

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