Newspaper article: Recently discovered clay tablets from southern Egypt date to between 3300 and 3200 B.C. Though mos...

DevinFuller on November 6, 2023

Negate A

Would you negate answer choice A as "some" and not "most"? - I get why C is correct - I suppose I'm looking for a definitive answer on why A is incorrect? I saw on another response that even if it said "zero" instead of "some" it would still be incorrect. Thank you!

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Emil-Kunkin on November 9, 2023

I actually would negate this as "it is not the case that most of the untranslated tablets contain literature." That said, I wouldn't bother negating this answer choice. Just reading it through, there's no compelling reason that the author would have to believe it to be true. The author is just claiming that the existence of one early scroll disprove a claim that someone else had literature earlier. Whether or both there is literature on any of the other scrolls it was found with isn't relevant to that claim.