Sentence Correction

thephoenix wrote:Out of a growing pride in the region's pre-automotive achievements have developed a committee for the preservation of Detroit's landmarks and artifacts that are creating monuments and museums across the city.

thephoenix are you really sure that the question is correct? What's the source?

I can see that lot people have taken leads on parallelism, tense etc and have jumped the gun. But, does the sentence on the whole makes any sense? either there are serious flaws in the punctuation or there are grammatical errors, which fail to show the subject.

it would make sense if someone (X) takes a pride in achievements and develops a committee for something. In that case, the sentence would be like:

Out of a growing pride in the region's pre-automotive achievements, X has developed a committee.....

the original sentence lacks the X factor (;)) and the comma which is essential for the first part to be a valid modifier.

Hope someone understands my concern.

harshavardhanc wrote:

mohit11 wrote:Out of a growing pride in the region's pre-automotive achievements have developed a committee for the preservation of Detroit's landmarks and artifacts that are creating monuments and museums across the city.



a) have developed a committee for the preservation of Detroit's landmarks and artifacts that are creating

b) has developed a committee for the preservation of Detroit's landmarks and artifacts that is creating

c) has developed a committee for the preservation of Detroit's landmarks and artifacts that create

d) have developed a committee for the preservation of Detroit's landmarks and artifacts that is creating

e) have developed a committee for the preservation of Detroit's landmarks and artifacts that create


Growing Pride - Singular.. so we should use has, eliminate D and E

committee is singular - so eliminate A

Detroit's landmarks and artifacts are not creating monuments, committe is... so eliminate C

answer is B.

Mohit,

Please make me understand this sentence. I'm not getting it at all.

>Who is proud?
>who has developed a committee ?

Dont worry Harsha,We have been solving so many SC & CR's..If something goes beyond our cognitive skills,I am sure there is some "stupidity" in the question..I am not blaming the OP for posting it..May be he culd have missed it out!!

IMO..this question is having some issues..u can also cross check with a recent CR named pencil lead" by fibo..I plotte dthe error as it sounded "wierd" to my brain.. c ya

harshavardhanc wrote:

thephoenix wrote:Out of a growing pride in the region's pre-automotive achievements have developed a committee for the preservation of Detroit's landmarks and artifacts that are creating monuments and museums across the city.

thephoenix are you really sure that the question is correct? What's the source?

I can see that lot people have taken leads on parallelism, tense etc and have jumped the gun. But, does the sentence on the whole makes any sense? either there are serious flaws in the punctuation or there are grammatical errors, which fail to show the subject.

it would make sense if someone (X) takes a pride in achievements and develops a committee for something. In that case, the sentence would be like:

Out of a growing pride in the region's pre-automotive achievements, X has developed a committee.....

the original sentence lacks the X factor (;)) and the comma which is essential for the first part to be a valid modifier.

Hope someone understands my concern.

hey harsha the q was from an another forum.......so far it stands as it is.........