With a new park!!

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With a new park!!

by gmat_perfect » Tue Jul 13, 2010 12:25 pm
With a new park, stadium, and entertainment complex along the Delaware River, Trenton, New Jersey, is but one of a large number of communities that is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.

(A) is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(B) is looking at using its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(C) are looking to use their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(D) are looking to use its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting
(E) are looking at using their waterfronts as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attract

[spoiler]OA: C[/spoiler]
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by indiantiger » Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:11 pm
Pick C, reason we need are not is.
The construction like one of <plural> that requires plural.
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by pnk » Tue Jul 13, 2010 2:25 pm
indiantiger wrote:Pick C, reason we need are not is.
The construction like one of <plural> that requires plural.
But I think in C 'their waterfronts' not correct.

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by reply2spg » Tue Jul 20, 2010 4:07 pm
Why not? If you are using 'one of a large number of communities that are' then you need 'their' and not 'its'. Actually E is very wordy, therefore, I didn't like E.

C is good
pnk wrote:
indiantiger wrote:Pick C, reason we need are not is.
The construction like one of <plural> that requires plural.
But I think in C 'their waterfronts' not correct.
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