Excerpt from norse mythology part b kate mcconnaughey (12) but some of baldur’s magic food would have been given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur. read the passage. look at the underlined section marked number (12). there may be a mistake in the way the sentence is written. if you find a mistake, choose the answer that corrects the mistake. if there is no mistake, choose ‘correct as is.’
a) correct as is.
b) but some of baldur’s magic food is given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur.
c) but some of baldur’s magic food was given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur.
d) but some of baldur’s magic food were given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur.

c) but some of Baldur’s magic food was given to the prince, and it made him as strong as baldur.

Explanation:

The original sentence contains a Perfect Continuous Conditional which is usually used in third conditional sentences, Thus, it expresses an unreal and impossible situation that never actually happened. However, the prince had Baldur's food, and as a result of that he became as strong as him.

Option B is wrong because it mixes Present Simple and Past Simple. Finally, option D fails to have noun-verb agreement because food is uncountable and cannot be followed by a plural verb like were.

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one thousand and one nights, also called the arabian nights is a collection of middle eastern tales compiled in arabic during the islamic golden age, dated from the 8th to the 14th century. this collection was compiled of largely middle eastern and indian stories with an uncertain date and autorship whose tales such as aladdin, ali baba and sinbad the sailor -these ones were the most popular ones, the ones that have almost become part of western folklore.

as in much medieval european literature, the stories contained in this collection are set within a frame story. its scene is central asia, as known as "the islands or peninsulae of india and china", where king shahryar kills his wife after discovering her infidelities and as well as any other who betrayed him.   then, loathing all womankind, he marries and kills his new wife each day until no more candidates could have been found. his vizier had two daughters, scheherezade and dunyazad. the elder one -scheherezade- having devised a scheme to save herself and the others insisted that her father needed to give her in marriage to the king. each evening, she used to tell a story leaving it incomplete and promising to finish it the following night. the stories kept the king very interested, so eager to hear evey ending of each story, that he puts off her execution from day to day and finally he decided to give up with his plan. these stories are contained within the collection of 1001 nights, the bulk of the text is in prose, although verse is usually used for songs and riddles to express better the heightened emotion of them.

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