Sentence Correction

At Shiprock, New Mexico, a perennially powerful girls’ high school basketball team has become a path to college for some and a source of pride for a community where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are below the poverty level.
(A) where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are
(B) where they have 49 percent of the household incomes
(C) where 49 percent of the household incomes are
(D) which has 49 percent of the household incomes
(E) in which 49 percent of them have household incomes


why the choice d is wrong?

[spoiler]Choice D doesn't really make sense idiomatically. I would go with choice C instead. A community doesn't really HAVE a set of incomes.. you would say that the individual houses have incomes.[/spoiler]

when we are referring to a community...shouldn't it be Which and not where ??.

IMO E, 'community...where' is incorrect idiomatic usage, so we are left with D and E , I picked E because D is awkwardly worded.

OA ? Source?

IMO D

where is not correct to refer to the community so A, B, C are out

in E, them is not correct, it has no clear antecedent

D is remaining choice

kc_raj,

'some' is the antecedent.

Also, I hope real2008 provides the darn OA. So far I can only infer that D not the answer, because he questioned that.

real2008 wrote:At Shiprock, New Mexico, a perennially powerful girls’ high school basketball team has become a path to college for some and a source of pride for a community where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are below the poverty level.
(A) where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are
(B) where they have 49 percent of the household incomes
(C) where 49 percent of the household incomes are
(D) which has 49 percent of the household incomes
(E) in which 49 percent of them have household incomes


why the choice d is wrong?

The choice D would have been correct, had it started with a comma, i.e. ',which has 49 percent of the household incomes' or 'that has 49 percent of the household incomes' instead of 'which has 49 percent of the household incomes'.

expert comments please.....

IMO D
A,B,C where refers to the community which I think is wrong.
in E 'them' is ambiguous

I think it should be D as well -- but if u r saying its wrong .. really want to know whats OA

oa is c

IMO some is also a pronoun it cannot be antecedent to pronoun them,

thinking back C is correct, i agree with,

real2008 Posted: Tue Jun 09, 2009 12:29 am Post subject: Re: New Mexico

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real2008 wrote:
At Shiprock, New Mexico, a perennially powerful girls’ high school basketball team has become a path to college for some and a source of pride for a community where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are below the poverty level.
(A) where the household incomes of 49 percent of them are
(B) where they have 49 percent of the household incomes
(C) where 49 percent of the household incomes are
(D) which has 49 percent of the household incomes
(E) in which 49 percent of them have household incomes


why the choice d is wrong?


The choice D would have been correct, had it started with a comma, i.e. ',which has 49 percent of the household incomes' or 'that has 49 percent of the household incomes' instead of 'which has 49 percent of the household incomes'.