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SC: African Wildcat

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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: SC: African Wildcat
 Post Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2010 7:59 am 
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sharma16.ash wrote:
StaceyKoprince wrote:

Jonathan is correct that "one" refers to "divergence."

In terms of the actual content here, yes evolution occurs over time, but divergence refers to the general timeframe during which the scientists have established that a separate breeding population emerged. "Approximately 4,000 years ago" fits that kind of description.


Hi Stacey,
I have a doubt.

If "one" referes to divergence,
"one that scarcely seems sufficient " can be re-read as "divergence that scarcely seems sufficient". Is this correct?. Its "time period" that "scarcely seems sufficient" and not "divergence".


this works okay with "divergence" as well. the concept of the time period is actually subsumed within the concept of divergence, so we're fine here.

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ARASH4339
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I cannot figure out, what is the main verb in the following sentence (Answer E), would you please guide me?

E. The domestic cat descended from the African wildcat approximately 4,000 years ago, an exceedingly recent divergence with respect to genetic evolution and one which scarcely seems sufficient to allow the marked physical changes in the animal.
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jnelson0612
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 Post Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2012 6:04 pm 
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ARASH4339 wrote:
I cannot figure out, what is the main verb in the following sentence (Answer E), would you please guide me?

E. The domestic cat descended from the African wildcat approximately 4,000 years ago, an exceedingly recent divergence with respect to genetic evolution and one which scarcely seems sufficient to allow the marked physical changes in the animal.


Sure! The main verb is "descended". The main sentence is:

The domestic cat descended from the African wildcat approximately 400 years ago.

The stuff following it is all an adverbial modifier describing this in more detail.

The core of the sentence stripped of modifiers is "The cat descended". Check out how many modifiers are in that answer!

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