Sentence Correction

Many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries.

A Many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries.

B Chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with many hundreds of monasteries.

C Hundreds of monasteries, many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago, are dotting the mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia.

D The mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of which are chiseled from solid rock centuries ago.

E The mountainous regions of northern Ethiopia are dotted with hundreds of monasteries, many of them chiseled from solid rock centuries ago.


The OA is E

My question is
Would B be a better choice if I change
"many hundreds" to "hundreds".
Them in E is not looking good to me.

Thanks!!

E makes perfect sense out of all choices.
If you read B properly it is not conveying the right meaning even if you change "many hundreds" to "hundreds".

even after modification
"Chiseled from solid rock centuries ago" will end p modifying "Mountain"
instead of "monasteries".
So "E" correct choice here

How about the tenses used in option E ?

What would you say if I say ARE in option E, needs to be WERE ?

logitech wrote:How about the tenses used in option E ?

What would you say if I say ARE in option E, needs to be WERE ?

I would say that you are incorrect

Why would you want to change the meaning of the orig. sentence

Is this your explanation to my question ?

Jatinder wrote:

logitech wrote:How about the tenses used in option E ?

What would you say if I say ARE in option E, needs to be WERE ?

I would say that you are incorrect

Why would you want to change the meaning of the orig. sentence

logitech wrote:Is this your explanation to my question ?

Jatinder wrote:

logitech wrote:How about the tenses used in option E ?

What would you say if I say ARE in option E, needs to be WERE ?

I would say that you are incorrect

Why would you want to change the meaning of the orig. sentence

OMG..it seems you felt bad
I didn't mean that.......All i wanted to say that whn the original sentence is describing present, we should maintain the consistency of the tense in order to avoid changing the meaning.

Again, Don't take it personelly but if you say that "were" should be used, you have to explain it.
May be, you might be correct and i may be wrong but not without justification.

BTW "All" includes "you" also Just kidding

Kiddo,

.All i wanted to say that whn the original sentence is describing present, we should maintain the consistency of the tense in order to avoid changing the meaning.

What are those tenses in option E ?

Memorizing lines from books ?


Again, Don't take it personelly but if you say that "were" should be used, you have to explain it.

Did I say WERE SHOULD be used ?

and it is personally not personelly.

But don't take it personally

Anyways play time is over, go back to class now. We have work to do.

Jatinder wrote:

logitech wrote:Is this your explanation to my question ?

Jatinder wrote:

logitech wrote:How about the tenses used in option E ?

What would you say if I say ARE in option E, needs to be WERE ?

I would say that you are incorrect

Why would you want to change the meaning of the orig. sentence

OMG..it seems you felt bad
I didn't mean that.......All i wanted to say that whn the original sentence is describing present, we should maintain the consistency of the tense in order to avoid changing the meaning.

Again, Don't take it personelly but if you say that "were" should be used, you have to explain it.
May be, you might be correct and i may be wrong but not without justification.

BTW "All" includes "you" also Just kidding

logitech wrote:Kiddo,

.All i wanted to say that whn the original sentence is describing present, we should maintain the consistency of the tense in order to avoid changing the meaning.

What are those tenses in option E ?

Memorizing lines from books ?


Again, Don't take it personelly but if you say that "were" should be used, you have to explain it.

Did I say WERE SHOULD be used ?

and it is personally not personelly.

But don't take it personally

Anyways play time is over, go back to class now. We have work to do.

Jatinder wrote:

logitech wrote:Is this your explanation to my question ?

Jatinder wrote:

logitech wrote:How about the tenses used in option E ?

What would you say if I say ARE in option E, needs to be WERE ?

I would say that you are incorrect

Why would you want to change the meaning of the orig. sentence

OMG..it seems you felt bad
I didn't mean that.......All i wanted to say that whn the original sentence is describing present, we should maintain the consistency of the tense in order to avoid changing the meaning.

Again, Don't take it personelly but if you say that "were" should be used, you have to explain it.
May be, you might be correct and i may be wrong but not without justification.

BTW "All" includes "you" also Just kidding

What are those tenses in option E ?
A single tense (Not tenses, i never said tenses) - present tense: the orig. sentence is describing present.

Memorizing lines from books ?

i would appreciate if we can concentrate on the content rather than the source.

Did I say WERE SHOULD be used ?

What would you say if I say ARE in option E, needs to be WERE ?

You indeed did'n say that were should be used, I took the implicit meaning
i could not understand any other meaning apart from the one that Whether the answer would be correct if i use were

and it is personally not personelly.

Looking you other posts, i am not surprised to read such a volla

Anyways play time is over, go back to class now. We have work to do.

I am here to learn as are other people. we have other meaningful things to talk about. So pls Don't spoil the spirit of the forum.

logitech wrote:How about the tenses used in option E ?

What would you say if I say ARE in option E, needs to be WERE ?

logitech ... "are" is correct in option E because the monasteries still exist.

Can anyone explain me the why not D and why E?

A and B: "chiseled from solid rock" in correctly modifies "the mountainous region" instead of "monasteries".
C: "are dotting" suggests the process of "dotting" is continuing and more and more monasteries are adding to the existing number.
D: "are chiseled from ...centuries ago" is incorrect. "were chiseled" must be used instead of "are chiseled" for past tense.
E: Best choice. "many of them chiseled..." correctly modifies "monasteries. Hence, E is the answer.