GWD1(Q2, Q20)

shasha_jin

By the way, if you choose D, you definitely need the it at the end since the sentence after AND would be an individual sentence which needs the object after the complete. It would be "the army....is ..years old and artisans took...years to complete it...". Even the grammar will be correct then, it is tedious and will not a best option.

cwcc

for the first question, if the "increase" is vt ,where is it's objective in the choice of E?

starist

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cloudymind

GWD1-Q20:

Rivaling the pyramids of Egypt or even the ancient cities of the Maya as an achievement, the army of terra-cotta warriors created to protect Qin Shi Huang, China’s first emperor, in his afterlife is more than 2,000 years old and took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete them.

1. took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete them

2. took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete it

3. took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete

4. 700,000 artisans took more than 36 years to complete

5. to complete them too 700,000 artisans more than 36 years

The sentence structure is " The army .... is .... and took ...."

The sentence structure is " The army .... is .... and took ...."

(D)(E) obviously are wrong.

(A), "them" doesn't agree with "army". Wrong

So the question is, shall we say

(B)  (The army) took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete it.   OR

(C)  (The army) took 700,000 artisans more than 36 years to complete.

Here are some analogous transformations:

He took ten minutes to solve the problem.
The problem took him ten minutes to solve.
(Not: The problem took him ten minutes to solve it.)

Therefore the correct choice should be (C) imho.

Therefore the correct choice should be (C) imho.

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