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by prachich1987 » Tue Dec 28, 2010 11:36 am
In the Champagne region of France, wine growers still harvest grapes as they have done for centuries, by carefully handpicking their crop and storing their precious fruit in specially aged casks.

A)wine growers still harvest grapes as they have done
B)the wine grower still harvests grapes as he has
C)wine growers still harvest grapes as was done
D)wine growers still harvest grapes as has been done
E)wine growers still harvest grapes as they did


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by Target2009 » Tue Dec 28, 2010 2:04 pm
IMO - A.

Reason:
[spoiler]B- Out for SV agreement
C,D - Sounds passive.
E- Verb error: "did" destroy the original meaning of still harvest
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by sanabk » Tue Dec 28, 2010 5:13 pm
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by prachich1987 » Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:08 pm
Target2009 wrote:IMO - A.

Reason:
[spoiler]B- Out for SV agreement
C,D - Sounds passive.
E- Verb error: "did" destroy the original meaning of still harvest
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OA please
Target 2009, you are right.The OA is A
But I have a doubt here
I understand that B,C & E really don't make any sense.
But A says "wine growers still harvest grapes as they have done"for centuries.
Here the wine growers are not the same those were there a century/centuries back.
& hence it should be preferable to use passive voice & keep the subject of the clause ambiguous as D does "wine growers still harvest grapes as has been done"
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by Target2009 » Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:23 pm
As such sentence doesn't talk about any particular set of wine grovers. Its simply say "wine growers " as a group or say people who grow wine .. they may belong to today or may be from past.. but what they were doing in past they still doing it... So A looks fine to me.
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by prachich1987 » Tue Dec 28, 2010 10:25 pm
Target2009 wrote:As such sentence doesn't talk about any particular set of wine grovers. Its simply say "wine growers " as a group or say people who grow wine .. they may belong to today or may be from past.. but what they were doing in past they still doing it... So A looks fine to me.
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It makes sense
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