Sentence Correction

Unlike German shepherds or Doberman pinchers, there is an unwillingness on the part of many people to believe that pit bulls might be fully domesticated.
(A) Unlike German shepherds or Doberman pinchers, there is an unwillingness on the part of many people to believe that pit bulls might be fully domesticated.
(B) Many people, willing to believe that German shepherds and Doberman pinchers might be fully domesticated, are unwilling to believe the same of pit bulls.
(C) Unlike German shepherds or Doberman pinchers, pit bulls bring out an unwillingness in many people to believe that they might be fully domesticated.
(D) Many people are unwilling to believe that pit bulls might be fully domesticated even while they are willing to believe that German shepherds and Doberman pinchers might be.
(E) Unlike German shepherds and Doberman pinchers, which many people are willing to believe can be fully domesticated, such belief does not extend to pit bulls.

OA: B

I could already eliminate A and E because of incorrect comparison. But how to choose among B,C and D? Can some SC experts help in reasoning between B,C and D

Some earlier posts on BTG explain that in C, "THEY" is ambiguous but "THEY" clearly refers to Pitbulls as it is parallel to the subject of the earlier clause.

Similarly for D, "They" refers to people and so does not appear ambiguous.

Can some experts clarify if C,D are incorrect because of pronoun ambiguity

Unlike German shepherds or Doberman pinchers, there is an unwillingness on the part of many people to believe that pit bulls might be fully domesticated.

(A) Unlike German shepherds or Doberman pinchers, there is an unwillingness on the part of many people to believe that pit bulls might be fully domesticated.---wrong comparison

(B) Many people, willing to believe that German shepherds and Doberman pinchers might be fully domesticated, are unwilling to believe the same of pit bulls. --essential modifier within comma.Also after removing the modifier the sentence actually is "Many people, willing to believe that German shepherds and Doberman pinchers might be fully domesticated, are unwilling to believe the same of pit bulls.I dont know how this could be correct answer because the word same is referring back to the words within commas. Only reason i see for this to be true can be that there is parallelism present "Many people, willing to believe that German shepherds and Doberman pinchers might be fully domesticated, are unwilling to believe the same of pit bulls. (EXPERTS PLS COMMENT)

(C) Unlike German shepherds or Doberman pinchers, pit bulls bring out an unwillingness in many people to believe that they might be fully domesticated. ---NOT SURE HOW PIT BULLS CUD BRING OUT SUMTHNG, The use of THEY is ambiguous.

(D) Many people are unwilling to believe that pit bulls might be fully domesticated even while they are willing to believe that German shepherds and Doberman pinchers might be.--i THINK "THEY" IS CORRECT HERE but THE SENTENCE AFTER "THAT" SHUD BE A STANDALONE(EXPERTS PLS COMMENT)

(E) Unlike German shepherds and Doberman pinchers, which many people are willing to believe can be fully domesticated, such belief does not extend to pit bulls. --wrong comparison

First pass:

A - wrong comparison
B -
C -
D - crazy wordy! "even while..." "might be" Yikes! Just wordy & awkward all over.
E - wrong comparison

Now let's compare B and C. What is the subject-verb for each one?

B - "people" "are unwilling"
C - "pit bulls" "bring out"

Ask yourself: What is the meaning and focus here? On the pit bulls, or the people?

Even though logically "they" is referring to pit-bulls it's still not 100% clear, since the closest noun to it is "people" so yes, we can eliminate C based on the ambiguity.

Also notice how B has the nice "willing...unwilling..." parallelism. Well-spotted @killer1387.

VivianKerr wrote:First pass:

A - wrong comparison
B -
C -
D - crazy wordy! "even while..." "might be" Yikes! Just wordy & awkward all over.
E - wrong comparison

Now let's compare B and C. What is the subject-verb for each one?

B - "people" "are unwilling"
C - "pit bulls" "bring out"

Ask yourself: What is the meaning and focus here? On the pit bulls, or the people?

Even though logically "they" is referring to pit-bulls it's still not 100% clear, since the closest noun to it is "people" so yes, we can eliminate C based on the ambiguity.

Also notice how B has the nice "willing...unwilling..." parallelism. Well-spotted @killer1387.

Hey Vivian,
I want to clarify whether the clause after that is always standalone/ indepedent. If this is so then also D can be rejected.

Please comment.
thanx

Not necessarily. "That" introduces a relative clause, whose function is modify like an adjective or an adverb does, so it's not a true independent clause.

Look at this example: https://www.beatthegmat.com/moon-dislodg ... 50644.html

While the first clause after "that" looks like it could be a standalone sentence, the second part after the second "that": "had perhaps been dislodged...." could clearly not standalone, and yet it is correct.