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osirus0830 wrote:I think its 2 (B).
1 is wrong because using the present tense "paint" is incorrect.
3 is wrong because have painted is the present perfect tense which is inappropriate here since the cave dwellers are no longer painting murals.
4 is wrong because of the conjunction but changes the meaning of the sentence
5 is wrong because it uses the past perfect tense but the painting of the murals would have occurred after the hunting of the animals, so this would be a misuse of the past perfect tense.
The author is using the gerund as a modifier to modify the entire proceeding clause.suchoudh wrote:Yes, 2 looks the most appropriate, but why past continuous tense? I am sure they were not painting at the time they hunted mammals.
osirus0830 wrote:I think its 2 (B).
1 is wrong because using the present tense "paint" is incorrect.
3 is wrong because have painted is the present perfect tense which is inappropriate here since the cave dwellers are no longer painting murals.
4 is wrong because of the conjunction but changes the meaning of the sentence
5 is wrong because it uses the past perfect tense but the painting of the murals would have occurred after the hunting of the animals, so this would be a misuse of the past perfect tense.
What source are these questions from?suchoudh wrote:Well, it was not clear how the action of painting modifies hunting.
But yes you are right, OA is indeed 2(B).
Please cite the source !suchoudh wrote:Sorry, can't disclose but it is one from one of the new test prep companies.
B doesn't make sense to me; it seems to imply that they hunted the animals while painting the murals. Maybe a semicolon instead of a comma would be better?Prehistoric cave dwellers hunted the large mammals of their environment and paint murals of these hunting scenes.
(1) environment and paint
(2) environment, painting
(3) environment and have painted
(4) environment but painted
(5) environment and had painted
Remember, the simple past can refer to an action that happened once in the past, but it also can refer to an action that happened routinely over a peroid of time. (I went to school in 97. When I lived in Detroit, I shopped at Wal-Mart)suchoudh wrote:Yes, 2 looks the most appropriate, but why past continuous tense? I am sure they were not painting at the time they hunted mammals.
Prehistoric cave dwellers hunted the large mammals of their environment and paint murals of these hunting scenes.
I think there is a flaw in the reasoning here; the original sentence is connecting the two activities of hunting and painting when it mentions "of these hunting scenes"Remember, the simple past can refer to an action that happened once in the past, but it also can refer to an action that happened routinely over a peroid of time. (I went to school in 97. When I lived in Detroit, I shopped at Wal-Mart)
In this case, 'hunted mammals' refers not to a specific instance of hunting mammals, but to a routine of hunting mammals that we can only presume lasted generations. Simultaneous to the routine (not, as you pointed out, the literal act), they were painting those animals, so the past continuous is correct.
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