Sentence Correction

zagcollins wrote:In April 1997, Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific conference on new findings that indicates a child’s acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as an active process that may be largely completed before age three.

A. that indicates a child’s acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as
No issues with "indicates" PRESENT TENSE OK
child's acquiring language ----don't know in which category i should put this in... non parallel to active process...



B. that are indicative of a child acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as

child acquiring language compared to activeprocess. .wrong

C. to indicate that when a child acquires language, thinking, and emotional skills,
that it is

wrong

D. indicating that a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is

participle modifier... child's acquisition of language---
E. indicative of a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional
skills as

maihuna wrote:Here is my poor construction/reasoning for D:

Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific conference (on new findings) that indicates (a child's acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as) an active process (that may be largely completed before age three.)

Here removing the prepositional phrases things will looks like: Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific conference that indicates X as an active process that Y.
So it is sure that that refers back to conference which is singular so plural option C is gone.
Further findings that indicates or findings indicating both are fine, but indicative of is wrong, so B E out. We are left with options A and D. A says that a childs acquiring language...as an active process, is awkward to say the least, because we need a noun phrase working as a subject for verb is,
D says, child's acquisition of language is an active process that... so as acquisition is the noun we were looking for in A fine choose D.

mmslf75 wrote:

maihuna wrote:Here is my poor construction/reasoning for D:

Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific conference (on new findings) that indicates (a child's acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as) an active process (that may be largely completed before age three.)

Here removing the prepositional phrases things will looks like: Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific conference that indicates X as an active process that Y.
So it is sure that that refers back to conference which is singular so plural option C is gone.
Further findings that indicates or findings indicating both are fine, but indicative of is wrong, so B E out. We are left with options A and D. A says that a childs acquiring language...as an active process, is awkward to say the least, because we need a noun phrase working as a subject for verb is,
D says, child's acquisition of language is an active process that... so as acquisition is the noun we were looking for in A fine choose D.

"INDICATING............. " is actually an adverbial modifier and should modify what is being said in former part of the sentence

Don't you think that for D to be right, there must have been "comma+indicating"

TO INDICATE --> purpose
INDICATING --> effect "adv modifier"


Query 2


scientific conference """on new findings"" that indicates

Here, that refers to NEW FINDINGS ? or CONFERENCE ?

Based on knowledge gathered so far,

Structure type
X prepositional phrase that

The THAT refers to X and not to prep phrase

Pls confirm

josh_nsit wrote:

ildude02 wrote:Thanks for the link. Do you normally consider all verb's ending with "ing" form a gerund ? How do you distinguihs if it is a gerund or an adjective per say? Appreciate your response.

Any ing kind of verb form taking role of a noun in senetence is a gerund. So it is clear to identify gerunds in sentences like: Swimming is a nice exercise.