Sentence Correction

The first trenches that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but independently of the more celebrated city-states of southern Mesopotamia, in what is now southern Iraq.


A. that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence for centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East that were arising simultaneously with but

B. that were cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously with but also

C. having been cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East were arising simultaneously but

D. cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, yields strong evidence of centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arising simultaneously but also

E. cut into a 500-acre site at Tell Hamoukar, Syria, have yielded strong evidence that centrally administered complex societies in northern regions of the Middle East arose simultaneously with but

OA is E. I know the question ha been discussed numerous times. The dousbt I have is :

In option E, The first trenches cut into is in present tense. So how could we use present perfect tense in the latter part of the sentence. How the action happened in the present have yielded the evidence in the past. [/b][/u]

ankit0703 wrote:The dousbt I have is :

In option E, The first trenches cut into is in present tense. So how could we use present perfect tense in the latter part of the sentence. How the action happened in the present have yielded the evidence in the past. [/b][/u]

Actually this is not in the present tense. Remember the verb to cut has the form of cut/cut/cut. So the simple present, simple past, and past participle are all the same for the verb to cut. Here, I believe the usage is in the simple past. Let me know if this helps.

The form "cut into" is past participle or V3 and it works here as a modifier of "trenches." Remember that V3 can act as an adjective and modify a noun.

e.g. "fallen leaves"