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.
extending
extends
extended
it extended
is extending
spawned和extending并列,共同修饰:an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles
spawned by 过去分词表被动,且是过去发生 10,000 years ago
extending现在分词表主动,且和过去对比,表示现在扩展的很广
BCE:把extend和 that is an interwoven filigree of mushrooms and rootlike tentacles 并列,不合逻辑
应该像A一样,先用一个定语从句主系表,说明fungus是an interwoven filigree
再用过分和现分两个修饰语,并列修饰fungus/an interwoven filigree
D:it extended和Scientists have recently discovered并列,完全错
难题,细节题
A Correct. Th is sentence has the participles
spawned and extending in a correct parallel
construction. Spawned refers to something
that happened in the past, while extending
refers to something that continues into
the present.