The county cleared this path and paved it with packed gravel, so they would have a peaceful place to hike and bike. Which of the following alternatives to the underlined portion would NOT be acceptable?

1. path, paving
2. path and then paved
3. path before paving
4. path paved

4. path paved

Explanation:

Based on the options, one can surmise that the underlined area is ''...path and paved it ...''.

After the county cleared the path, they then paved it with packed gravel. These were two distinct actions and so need to be separated when written. Options A through to C manages to do this as both actions are separated by a commas or conjunctions.

In option D however, there was no separation of both actions which makes it grammatically wrong and unacceptable to replace the underlined part.

the correct answer would be d, i never like waking up.

explanation:

iambic tetrameter is a meter which is basically a line consisting of four feet of iambic and it is used in poetry. it consists of unstressed syllables followed by a stressed syllable. in this question, the only statement which is giving the feel of being stressed is option d, which says that i never like waking up. it means the person is feeling stressed whenever he wakes up. he never likes to wake up and and whenever he wakes up, he doesn't like it. so a sense or feel of being stressed is in this statement.  

i’m pretty sure it is the second