grammar

liul781

2000.1

32.  Female sea turtles,before laying her eggs,swim as much as 2000 kilometers to return to the beaches where they themselves were hatched.

a) her------their     or     b)as much as -------as many as
why???

necrophile

before laying "their" eggs. not her eggs.
coz the first part of sentence is female sea "turtles"

liul781

thanks,how about answer b?

nanozhang

As for B, the phrase-- "as much as"-- describes distance, which is an uncountible noun.

lion17

但是kilometers 是复数形式？

nanozhang

just like "as much as 500 dollars", here "dollars" refers to money; similarly, "kilometers" refers to "distance".