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Belly Posted 18 years ago
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Challenges vs Challenging

0The new discovery, along with previous reports of other 11000-year-old human sites in South America, ____ the theory that the first New World settlers immediately trekked inland after crossing the Bering Strait from Asia, mainly hunted big game, and moved into South America along the Andes Mountains.02br
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00a) challenges02br
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00b_ challenging02br
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00The answer turns out to be b but I think a is OK. why not a but b?0-
  

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" When you use "b" the sentences will modify the first part of the sentence and you need a verb to finish and complete the sentence but if you read it all over again, you can't find a verb. Let me show you: 02br 02br 00The new discovery, 00along with previous reports of other 11000-year-old human sites in South America00, __ the theory that the first New World settlers immediately trekked inland after crossing the Bering Strait from Asia, 00mainly hunted big game00, and moved into South America along the Andes Mountains. Doın't read the parts in pink because they give extra informatino and confuse you.

— Doll

  • " When you use "b" the sentences will modify the first part of the sentence and you need a verb to finish and complete the sentence but if you read it all over again, you can't find a verb.
  • Let me show you: 02br 02br 00The new discovery, 00along with previous reports of other 11000-year-old human sites in South America00, __ the theory that the first New World settlers immediately trekked inland after crossing the Bering Strait from Asia, 00mainly hunted big game00, and moved into South America along the Andes Mountains.
  • Doın't read the parts in pink because they give extra informatino and confuse you.
  • so the sentence becomes: 02br 02br 00The new discovery __ the theory that the first New World settlers immediately trekked inland after crossing the Bering Strait from Asia, and moved into South America along the Andes Mountains.
  • Now put "challanges": 02br 02br 00The new discovery 00challanges00 the theory that the first New World settlers immediately 00trekked00 01font 00(this is the verb which will complete)02font 00 00inland after crossing the Bering Strait from Asia, and moved 01font 00( this is the second verb which will complete)02font 00 into South America along the Andes Mountains.
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0My try: 02br
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00I think it should be "a." When you use "b" the sentences will modify the first part of the sentence and you need a verb to finish and complete the sentence but if you read it all over again, you can't find a verb. Let me show you: 02br
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00The new discovery, 00along with previous reports of other 11000-year-old human sites i
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0The same thhought here but the answer is 01b00challenging02b00, I really don't know why0-
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0 A 01font00finite verb02font00 is needed for the main clause: 01i00The new discovery 01font00challenges02font00 the theory...02i02br
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01cite10Belly12cite10The answer turns out to be b12blockquote
10 If the answer is b, the answer book is wrong. Or maybe you didn't write the question properly. As it stands, the answer is not b. It's a.02br
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1i00challenging02i00 would work only with something like this:02br
00The new discovery ..., 01b00challenging02b00 the theory that ... along the Andes Mountains, 01b00hasn't met with much success. 02b0-
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0 01i00The new discovery 01font00challenges02font00 the theory...02i02br
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00That's exactly right! The subject is "new discovery"- single, third person rule applied here.02br
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00Same idea: Her 01sup00hand writing looks02sup00 terrible!02br
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