Question

Written in ink or engraved by stylus, more than 2,000 letters and documents on wooden tablets excavated at the site of the old Roman fort at Vindolanda in northern England are yielding a historical account of the military garrison in the first and second centuries that are so vivid in their details about personal life as they are from Pompeii.

(A) are so vivid in their details about personal life as they are(B) are as vivid in their details of personal life as those gathered(C) is as vivid in their detail about personal life as that gathered(D) is as vivid in its details of personal life as that gathered(E) is so vivid in its details of personal life as is that

Answer 1

(D) is as vivid in its details of personal life as that gathered

Step-by-step explanation:

Among the given options, the letter D is the only one that presents a grammatically correct sentence, with sufficient coherence and cohesion to establish a concrete meaning to the text. In addition, the other sentences have grammatical errors, or verbal and nominal agreement errors, or are still meaningless. For this reason, we can consider the letter D as correct.