Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: American oil tycoon Armand Hammer paid $5,126,000 at an auction for a

Okay, first understand the meaning of the sentence, the sentence says American Tycoon paid some money for a notebook CONTAINS 72 pages that featured some notes... now here contains is absolutely incorrect as it is a verb for the noun notebook, which is in object place, hence contains is not the verb for notebook..so in order to say that this book contain some pages , we need noun modifier that can be either THAT CONTAINS ( NOT CONTAINED ), OR CONTAINING . Now some of you might think that containing is not making sense as when we complete the sentence it would read like THE BOOK IS CONTAINING, now then yo feel like the sen is in the past so how it could be containing in the present?, so to answer this question, you must understand that CONTAIN AND FEATURE is a factual information that is true in the current time as well hence CONTAINING can be correct modifier for the book ....now as we move further in the sen, it says THESE 72 PAGES fueature LDV'S notes,
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Statistics : Posted by MastermindPrep • on 30 Dec 2022, 08:42 • Replies 4 • Views 1967

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