Scientific Conference

[spoiler]IMO(D)[/spoiler]

kul512 wrote:[spoiler]IMO(D)[/spoiler]

Please support your answer with what's wrong in other options.

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
--> should be plural

B. that are indicative of a child acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as
-->wrong meaning reflected

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

D. indicating that a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is
--> correct Among other choices but i doubt the parallelism.

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

--> With "indicative of" you dont need "as". This construction is awkward.
indicative of..... acquisition as process.........

Always we say " something is indicative of some other thing."
Also, we say "something indicate that something is some other thing"

IMO D
HTH

killer1387 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.

D. indicating that a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is
--> correct Among other choices but i doubt the parallelism.

Child's acquisition of X, Y and Z - don't you think we need 'are' here ? Or am I missing something here ? What is the singular subject involved here for the usage of 'is' ? I felt usage of 'is' is wrong and usage of 'are' makes it totally awkward.

In April 1997, Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific conference on new findings indicating that a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is an active process that may be largely completed before age three.

basically "acquisition" is the "process" and its singular hence "is" is required.

In April 1997, Hillary Rodham Clinton hosted an all-day White House scientific conference on new findings indicating that a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is an active process that may be largely completed before age three.

Also the bold part in the main part not underlined says its singular i.e. use of "an"

Silly me. Thanks a lot for explaining. Wonder why I din't realize child's acquisition is the subject when it is so clear now.

killer1387 wrote:
D. indicating that a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is
--> correct Among other choices but i doubt the parallelism.

HTH

Its perfectly parallel :

a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills.

All are nouns.

sam2304 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
B. that are indicative of a child acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills as
C. to indicate that when a child acquires language, thinking, and emotional skills, that it is
D. indicating that a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills is
E. indicative of a child’s acquisition of language, thinking, and emotional skills as

Please explain your pick. OA to follow.

AS used for clauses (not for nouns)

"As an active process that may be largely completed before age three" -IS A NOUN PHRASE. Drop A/B/E.
Furthermore,

A- INDICATES suggest that CONFERENCE is indicating things about a child, BUT its actually is the NEW FINDINGS that are indicating sth about a child

B - indicative of a child acquiring language, thinking, and emotional skills {the three elements are not parallel - first is A CHILD (NOUN) ACQUIRING (NON-CONJUGATED VERB) LANGUAGE (NOUN)...THINKING (NON-CONJUGATED VERB)...EMOTTIONAL SKILLS (ADJECTIVE-NOUN)}

C - its run-on (comma splice). problem here is: how "THAT WHEN...and "THAT IT.." are connected.

E - how NEW FINDINGS and INDICATIVE OF are connected; use of AS

D - INDICATING correctly modifies NEW FINDINGS (it avoids the ambiguity original sentence has whether CONFERENCE/NEW FINDINGS are indicatings skills of a child); IS is correct usage. IMO