Choose the correct option to make one complete sentence without using and, but or so.
He fled somewhere. His pursuers could not follow him.
Topic: Synthesis — adverb clause of place
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Pick an option and check your answer. The full worked answer is below either way.
Answer
(a) He fled where his pursuers could not follow him..
The word "somewhere" in the first sentence signals PLACE, so the two combine with the relative adverb WHERE: "He fled where his pursuers could not follow him."
Why the others fail: (b) swaps the words around into nonsense — he pursued, his followers fled. Read options carefully; this kind of reversal is a standard distractor. (c) uses "when", which makes it a matter of TIME rather than place, and leaves "somewhere" stranded. (d) is right in every respect except the TENSE — "cannot" instead of "could not". The original is in the past, and a combined sentence must keep the tense of the original.
Option (d) is the instructive one: a single word of tense is enough to lose the mark, so check the verb of every option against the original before choosing.
He fled where his pursuers could not follow him..