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Kilimanjaro Posted 20 years ago
Grammar

a difficult grammar question

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01b00which one is the best choice here? I'm perplexed. Thanks for your help.02b02br
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01b00Dinosaurs may have terrorized other creatures during their time on Earth, ---------- now it has emerged that some species had a taste for the flesh of their own kind.02b02br
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0 "d" 01i 00even if , 02i 00I think050010id1

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0 "d" 01i00even if , 02i00I think050010id1
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0 I share your perplexity. "but" came to mind immediately, but it's not one of the choices. If you absolutely have to choose one, choose D (even if). That answer is the closest to "but" that I can see among the five.02br
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0LOL. Yes, now I can see that as another possibility! 050010id1
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01cite10CalifJim12cite10I share your perplexity. "but" came to mind immediately, but it's not one of the choices. If you absolutely have to choose one, choose D (even if). That answer is the closest to "but" that I can see among the five.12br
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01b00Dinosaurs may have terrorized other creatures during their time on Earth, 01font00because02font00 now it has emerged that some species had a taste for the flesh of their own kind.02b02br
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001. Dinosaurs may have terrorized other creatures during their time on Earth, unless now it has emerged that some species had a taste for the flesh of their own kind.02br
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00— i.e. unless now new research has emerged to show that they wouldn't have terrorized other creatures, because they were too busy terrorizing their own kind.
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0Does that some species have the trait of eating their own kind mean that they did not eat any other creatures? Not necessearily I think. Then what do you think is the point of the attempt to relate them? Does that the dinosaurs may have terrorized other creatures have anything to do with the fact that whether some creatures had the trait of eating their own kind or not? Does the first sentence
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101. Dinosaurs may have terrorized other creatures during their time on Earth, unless now it has emerged that some species had a taste for the flesh of their own kind.12br
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10— i.e. unless now new research has emerged to show that they
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0 The first clause says "dinosaurs were meat eaters". The second clause says "now it is revealed some of them were cannibals". I feel a phrase like "and moreover" or "and furthermore" best works as the connector.02br
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