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yellowho
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1) Coach, the brand that created the very conceit of affordable luxury, [u]has emerged[/u] from its modest origins in the 1940s to become an emblem of the working woman and the remarkably a favorite among the fashion conscious.
[Why isn't emerged correct here? There's nothing in this sentence that suggests continued effect. "emerged" is one of the choices and its wrong]
2) Early royal burials often followed the common Maya practice of home interment, although the temple construction commemorating the burial and the offerings placed in the crypt or tomb [u]are[/u], of course, far more elaborate.
[OA here is were. What's wrong with are. There's no evidence that they are longer more elaborate. To me, either can be correct. Were is slightly better because were captures the fact that it might or might not be more elaborate now while are says definitively that it is more elaborate now. Please comment on my error in logic here.]
[Why isn't emerged correct here? There's nothing in this sentence that suggests continued effect. "emerged" is one of the choices and its wrong]
2) Early royal burials often followed the common Maya practice of home interment, although the temple construction commemorating the burial and the offerings placed in the crypt or tomb [u]are[/u], of course, far more elaborate.
[OA here is were. What's wrong with are. There's no evidence that they are longer more elaborate. To me, either can be correct. Were is slightly better because were captures the fact that it might or might not be more elaborate now while are says definitively that it is more elaborate now. Please comment on my error in logic here.]
