276. Erasmus Montanus, a seventeenth-century farce written by Ludwig Holberg, both predates and resembles Moliere's Tartuffe and is therefore thought to be one of Moliere's sources.
(A) both predates and resembles
(B) it both predates and resembles
(C) both predated and resembles
(D) has both predated and resembled
(E) because it both predated and resembled
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IMO Ajoyseychow wrote:276. Erasmus Montanus, a seventeenth-century farce written by Ludwig Holberg, both predates and resembles Moliere's Tartuffe and is therefore thought to be one of Moliere's sources.
(A) both predates and resembles
(B) it both predates and resembles
(C) both predated and resembles
(D) has both predated and resembled
(E) because it both predated and resembled
D is not wrong because "present perfect and present are used"
Read D as
both has predated and has resembled
D is x because we need simple present here bec. non underline portion has "is therefore" , which require present .
Read D as
both has predated and has resembled
D is x because we need simple present here bec. non underline portion has "is therefore" , which require present .
