The answer is:
There was no long run-up to the jump.
The jumper carried special weights.
The jumper made more than one jump.
In the excerpt from "The Ancient City," the author Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges makes reference to the long jump exhibited in ancient Greek athletics, which was quite different from modern long jump. For example, there is indication that the athletes did not run before performing the jump, so they probably executed numerous jumps. He also mentions that athletes moved forward special weights, called halteres, which provided impulse to the jump.
Alliteration is the figurative language for those types of sentences
The correct answer is the first option - <span>The sentence is correct as written.
The word 'dancers' is plural, which means that the verb which agrees with that subject also has to be plural. In the original sentence, the verb 'continue' is plural, which is why it is the only correct option. All other options have singular verbs and are therefore incorrect.</span>
