Sentence Correction

Kajiabeat wrote:Hi Ron,

in this context, whether "Ican Highway extends from....to...." and "Ican Highway was extended from ....to...." both are right? we pick E just because D has "being".

I mean, talking about highway, "extend" is more used in "passive voice" or "active voice" ?

Thank you!

as in the case of any other choice between the active and passive voices, you must think about meaning. either of those two usages could be legitimate, but any particular sentence will probably provide enough context to narrow the choice down to just one of the two.

* if you are just describing the range or span of something, then you say that it extends (active voice) over whatever range or span. this usage doesn't take an object.
Interstate 95 extends from Maine to Florida.

* if the subject is a person who is actually extending something, or an event that contributes extra length to something, then PERSON/EVENT extends X -- an active construction with an object.
The Bulldogs' victory in today's game extends their winning streak to 16 games.
The professor decided to extend his office hours during the week before final exams.

* if you are just describing the thing that was extended, then you use the passive voice.
Highway 85 ended in Cupertino before it was extended through Saratoga and southern San Jose.

the sentence at hand is just discussing the extent of the highway -- it doesn't mention any specific projects or efforts by which the highway was extended beyond its original length -- so the active voice is the only usage that makes sense in this problem.

mundasingh123 wrote:Hi Ron ,
The last example that you gave

Highway 85 ended in Cupertino before it was extended through Saratoga and southern San Jose.

is similar to the sc in question .
In this example , the subjected is being extended through Saratoga and southern San Jose.
and the subject is Highway 85
The sc under consideration is also talking about a highway .
why isnt the same case applicable to the SC

this example isn't applicable because the meaning is completely different. (in fact, the point of this example was to contrast it with the example in the thread.)
in this example, the highway actually was extended, i.e., lengthened/expanded. that is not the meaning of the original sentence. try inserting "lengthened" or "expanded" into the original; it will make no sense.

ashutoshkumar7 wrote:Can someone please explain why the option A is wrong.

It definitely is not wrong because it seems that Christopher Columbus was road . Or is it?

I can see that there is something wrong with sentence after the word "Which". I do not see any verb

But can someone please explain it?

the lack of a verb -- which you've correctly identified -- is the only error in that answer choice.

crisro wrote:Can somebody explain why option C is wrong?
Thanks

(c) is not a sentence -- it doesn't have a main verb.
it consists only of "the incan highway", preceded and followed by modifiers.