Hi Ron, I'm having a very silly doubt here , Isn't the two parallel sentence listed below has a tense issue ? 1. is more than ..... 2. took 700 artisan .... First one is in present tense Second one is in past tense . PS. Sorry in advance for such a question Thanks in advance Regards Nitin Singh

Nope, not a problem at all. First, notice that all five answer choices in the original post* use past tense, so we're stuck with it. There is NO rule about parallelism that says the verbs must be in the same tense. Conjugated verbs must match with conjugated verbs, but as long as that is satisfied ...

Hi Tim,Emily,Ron? Im trying to related this with the cause n effect question ? and assuming an alternate cause to be the correct answer choice. Option C , suggest the alternate cause, So , i believe to be the correct assumption. Or Is it the alternate cause (weakner) is not a potential assumption . ...