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by cbenk121 » Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:26 am
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
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by Ludacrispat26 » Tue Nov 10, 2009 9:59 am
Ron gave a great reply to this one here:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/most-brutal-sc-19-t9879.html
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by cbenk121 » Tue Nov 10, 2009 12:24 pm
Ludacrispat26 wrote:Ron gave a great reply to this one here:

https://www.beatthegmat.com/most-brutal-sc-19-t9879.html
Thanks! Good rule to know (past participle and present participle can be parallel).

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