Sailing South America
SAT question…help!!!!?
This is a question from the Writing section in improving sentences. The section in parenthases is the underlined portion.
( Whether the ancient Egyptians actually sailed of did not ) to South America remains unvertain, but Heyerdahl’s Ra II expedition demonstrated that they could have done so.
a) (no change)
b) Whether in actuality the ancient Egyptians sailed or did not
c) The actuality of the sailing by the ancient Egyptians
d) That the ancient Egyptians actually sailed
e) The ancient Egyptians, their actual sailing
I thought it was B, but it turned out to be D. Can anyone explain why D is correct as opposed to B?
b) uses awkward and grammatically incorrect phrases such as “whether in actuality,” and “sailed or did not.”
>>actuality is not a word
>>”or did not” is extraneous and does not add meaning to the sentence.
d) is much clearer, and is grammatically correct.
in solving these types of problems, choose the answer that runs the most smoothly and is the easiest to understand.
Mac’s Sail Around South America on the Nordica Part 1 of 7
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