<p>WHETHER THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS ACTUALLY SAILED OR DID NOT to South America remains uncertain, but Heyerdahls Ra expedition demonstrated that they could have done so.</p>
<p>a) As it is
b) Whether in actuality the ancient Egyptians sailed or did not
c) The actuality of the sailing by the ancient Egyptians
d) That the ancient Egyptians actually sailed
e) The ancient Egyptians, their actual sailing</p>
<p>Answer with explanation please..</p>
<p>Someone???</p>
<p>The answer’s D.</p>
<p>You want to eliminate the answers that say ‘actuality’ in them, since it’s not the appropriate word to use in the context of the sentence.</p>
<p>Can you give the reason for the inappropriateness of “actuality”?</p>
<p>I know this is weird, but I’ll give it a shot.</p>
<p>If you rearrange the parts of the sentence, it will make more sense: “It is uncertain that the ancient Egyptians actually sailed to South America.” This is the basic idea of the sentence.</p>
<p>A) the sentence isn’t structured correctly, it should be “whether – happened or not”, NOT “whether – happened or did not”
B) contains the word ‘actuality’. Not sure how to explain this, but no one uses that.
C) Again, it’s actuality.
D) correct
E) Awkwardly worded</p>
<p>Sorry I couldn’t be of more help</p>
<p>Its okay. Thank you for your help :-)</p>