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<li>Yearning for a truly representative art form of the Americas, the art world of the 1920's looked hopefully to the three popular Mexican mural artists of the day.</li>
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<p>Why shouldn't it be "of its day" instead of "of the day?"</p>
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<li>When M.R. Harrington, an archaeologist from the Museum of the American Indian, began to excavate the ruins he named the Pueblo Grande de Nevada, he unearthed artifacts indicating a 500-year occupation by indigenous peoples.</li>
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<p>Why shouldn't it be "artifacts that indicated" instead of "artifacts indicating?"</p>
<p>Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>please help! Thanks</p>
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<li><p>Was the answer no error? I can see why you’d think it would be “of its day”, but there is nothing grammatically wrong with “of the day”. Often on no error questions, people tend to be too picky and want to revise the sentence to their own style, but the sentence already there isn’t wrong.</p></li>
<li><p>Same thing. You’re thinking too much. If I simplified the sentence, it would read: “When M.R. Harrington began to excavate the ruins, he unearthed artifacts.” This is grammatically correct. “indicating a 500-year…” describes the artifacts.</p></li>
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<p>Does that make sense?</p>
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<li>When M.R. Harrington, an archaeologist from the Museum of the American Indian, began to excavate the ruins he named the Pueblo Grande de Nevada, he unearthed artifacts indicating a 500-year occupation by indigenous peoples.</li>
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<p>I don’t find this to be strictly incorrect; however, CB usually wants us to be very precise with any references. In the sentence above, ‘indicating’ could be related to both the archaeologist an the artifacts. Don’t know, why it’s not considered as a mistake.
Where did you get this question?</p>
<p>I got it from the SAT Online Course.</p>
<p>For 2, may be it is that ‘indicating’ is one word and ‘that indicated’ two. And in SAT, the best answers are precise.</p>
<p>if there was a comma after the artifacts, then it could probably be argued that indicating is misleading, but without the comma, like it is now, there is slight chance that “indicating” is modifying something other than artifacts, which comes right before “indicating”</p>