The Achaemenid Empire SC question

shoot4greatness wrote:The Achaemenid empire of Persia reached the Indus valley in the fifth century B.C, bringing the Aramaic script with it, from which was derived both northern and southern Indian alphabets.

A) same as above

B) the Aramaic script with it, and from which deriving both the northern and the

C) with it the Aramaic script, from which derive both the northern and the

D) with it the Aramaic script, from which derives both northern and

E) with it the Aramaic script, and deriving from it both the northern and the

Hi ya'll. I still don't understand why the OA is C, not D. The script was derived from the northern and southern Indian alphabets. I can't see the grammatical logic behind this answer. Although the verb "derive" is in the sub modifier, definition wise, derive means caused BY something, not causing something. Help please!!!

polter wrote:I have a confusion between C & E. Can't decide between them.

C: "from which" is close to script, which is modified but not parallel to bringing
E: "deriving" is parallel to bringing but it is far from script

Can someone please clarify how do I choose between these 2 options?

sameerballani wrote:

shoot4greatness wrote:The Achaemenid empire of Persia reached the Indus valley in the fifth century B.C, bringing the Aramaic script with it, from which was derived both northern and southern Indian alphabets.

C) with it the Aramaic script, from which derive both the northern and the

Its deriving two things, hence plural, hence we need to go with derive
Structure: It is X from which we DERIVE Both A and B.

Cheers123 wrote:@sameerballani

Your Inference: "The script was derived from the northern and southern Indian alphabets."

Read the statement again:
"...bringing the Aramaic script with it, from which was derived both northern and southern Indian alphabets"
The statement tries to say that the Indian alphabets were derived from the Aramaic script and not the reverse. Hence, the plural form. Hope this helps.

shoot4greatness wrote:oops thanks cheers. I got it. I wasn't paying attention to the context of the sentence. I was looking for grammatical mistakes only. Now it makes sense.