Scientists have recently discovered what could be the
largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant
fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and
rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore
some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than
30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending
OA A
This is Q42 in OG12 and tests parallelism. I could not understand the explanation offered. How is a past participle be parallel to present participle? I thought that for the elements tested to be in parallel, they would need to be in the same form.
largest and oldest living organism on Earth, a giant
fungus that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and
rootlike tentacles spawned by a single fertilized spore
some 10,000 years ago and extending for more than
30 acres in the soil of a Michigan forest.
(A) extending
(B) extends
(C) extended
(D) it extended
(E) is extending
OA A
This is Q42 in OG12 and tests parallelism. I could not understand the explanation offered. How is a past participle be parallel to present participle? I thought that for the elements tested to be in parallel, they would need to be in the same form.
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