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Av abhishiek Posted 13 years ago
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Because chickens lack teeth, they need another way to break apart the food they eat (before reaching the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they swallow are used to grind their food.)
A) before reaching the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they swallow are used to grind their food.
B) before it reaches the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they have swallowed is used to grind their food.
C) before it reaches the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they swallow are used to grind their food.
D) before reaching the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they have swallowed is used to grind their food.
E) before it reaches the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they have swallowed are used to grind their food.
Because chickens lack teeth, they need another way to break apart the food they eat (before reaching the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they swallow are used to grind their food.)
A) before reaching the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they swallow are used to grind their food.
B) before it reaches the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they have swallowed is used to grind their food.
C) before it reaches the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they swallow are used to grind their food.
D) before reaching the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they have swallowed is used to grind their food.
E) before it reaches the stomach, and for this reason, chickens have a gizzard in which stones they have swallowed are used to grind their food.
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Which one do you choose?
- Which one do you choose?
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my answer- C, , i am confused about the stones which are swallowed or which it swallows
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E is a better choice, since the stones were swallowed well before the food was eaten.
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could you help me differentiate difference between
"have swallowed"
"had swallowed"
"have swallowed"
"had swallowed"
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av abhishiekCould you help me differentiate difference betweenHave swallowed is present perfect; had swallowed is past perfect, which is impossible here because there is no preceding past point of view.
"have swallowed"
"had swallowed"
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Aspara Gus av abhishiekCould you help me differentiate difference between"have swallowed""had swallowed"Have swallowed is present perfect; had swallowed is past perfect, which is impossible here because there is no preceding past point of view.So we will use had swallowed if I am retelling this statement sometime in the future where no chicken exists
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We would use the past perfect in, for example, ... chickens had a gizzard in which stones they had swallowed were used to grind their food.
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