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by vaivish » Sat Sep 27, 2008 8:28 am
15. schiliemann determined at the age of 7 to find the site of ancient Troy and devoted his subsequent career to do it.

a. devoted his subsequent career to do it.

b. has devoted his subsequent career to do that

c. devoted his subsequent career to such an end

d. has devoted his subsequent career for that
e. devoted his subsequent career to that end .


OA is e.

I want to know do we use has after and in this type of cases and explaint hte oa pl.[/u]
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by stop@800 » Sat Sep 27, 2008 10:43 am
A is wrong because of do it.

BD
has devoted is incorrect tense here

CE
"to that end" seems better than "to such an end"
so E is the answer.

However I am not convince with the use of word "end" here.
Can anyone please put more light on this.

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