<p>From Test 2769 Section6 </p>
<li>The first people [that reached] North America almost certainly did so without knowing they had crossed into a new continent. </li>
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<p>(A) same
(B) which reached
(C) who reached
(D) to reach
(E) that had reached</p>
<p>I’ll post answer later… and plz explain your answer.</p>
<p>Also, is it idiomatic to say “to have a debate on”?</p>
<p>Well, I suppose my logic (whether correct or not) would be that rearranging the words in the subject without changing the meaning would be ok, so changing "The first people" to "The people who were first ________ North America" doesn't change any meaning makes the answer clearly D. Even without thinking that though, I would think "first to" would be the idea I was looking for"</p>
<h2>I got C, as it immediately corrects the pronoun error in the original sentence without changing the meaning of the sentence. Although, D looked good as well. I'll have to keep thinking about that one.</h2>
<p>I believe it is idomatic to say "to have a debate on the topic of [something]", though I prefer "to have a debate about [something]".</p>
<p>Now I think it's D. Still not sure though.</p>
<p>definitely C</p>
<p>Yeah. After revisiting it, C is my "final answer".</p>
<p>C or D i cant decide</p>
<p>I think D because there's just something too fishy about that C thatI cant quite put my finger on.</p>
<p>it is C. the word "that" is used in spoken english only when refering to a person
The correct gramar is "who"</p>
<p>my hunch was D so i'm going with D.</p>
<p>whatever you want Mr caps lock</p>
<p>The answer is C. </p>
<p>Because "who" refers to people, and because it said the "first people" the answer MUST contain a past tense verb.</p>
<p>okay, etti agrees with me. it's C</p>
<p>Well, let's see...</p>
<p>It isn't B, as using which is just bizarre, and it isn't E, as then the second part of the sentence would be "had done so". I doubt it is the same, as using that is awkward, so it's either D or C.</p>
<p>bigmrpig , I don't know where you got the idea to rephrase it and include a "who" that was never in the original sentence. Somebody can give a grammatical explanation for this most likely, but "to reach" sounds awkard. I think it's the wrong tense.</p>
<p>So, I'll go with C.</p>
<p>OP please post answer as well as the PR explanation :)</p>
<p>Yeah my way makes no sense, but I still see no reason why it wouldn't be D...</p>
<p>"First people who reached" doesn't sense because it makes "first" and "who reached" have no word to relate them to each other. Instead of "first," any adjective could be used. "The European people who reached," for example. If you use "who reached," then that wouldn't match up with "first," it would just be a separate description. It makes the term "first" ambiguous, because it is never specified what they were first to do. "First people to reach" is the only one that specifies what they were first to do.</p>
<p>So to reiterate, my argument is that "The first people who reached" provides two separate pieces of information about people, a description before and a description after, while the goal of the phrase is to provide a single piece of information, that information being that the people were first to reach North America.</p>
<p>The fact that the word "first" can be any adjective in the phrase "The first people who reached North America" without making the sentence grammatically incorrect shows that the words "first" and "who reached North America" are independent of each other. Either one can even be removed and the sentence remains grammatically correct. In the phrase "The first people to reach North America," the words "first" and "to reach North America" are directly related. Together they form one piece of information, instead of two.</p>
<p>Ah, the answer is C and I don't have the PR explanations. When I took it, I chose D using the same reasoning bigmrpig used. Why does choice D not work?</p>
<p>Gosh D is wrong? I'm stumped. I have no idea what's wrong with choice D.</p>
<p>PR is stupid. Theres no way a question like that would appear on the real collegeboard test.</p>
<p>Yeah, I agree with Docta. It's interesting to contemplate, but that's far beyond what would appear on the SAT or anything like that.</p>