Sentence Correction

Q> In the 1980s the federal givernment was the largest single provider of day care for children, offering child care, health, and educational services to hundreds of thousands of children from poor households through the Head Start program and which supported private day-care facilities through child-care tax credits, state block grants, and tax breaks for employers who subsidized day-care services.

a> In the 1980s the federal government was the largest single provider of day care for children, offering

b> The federal government was the largest single provider of day care for children in the 1980s, which offered

c> In the 1980s the federal governtment was the largest single provider of day care for children and offered

d> The largest single provider of day care for children in the 1980s was the federal government, offering

e> In the 1980s the largest single provider of day care for children was the federal government, which offered

Please help to explain...enaswer to be posted soon.

IMO E.

which offered ...... and which supported

OA pls.

yes OA is E...

is it really so easy .. ?

Option B also uses "which offered" as a parallel structure to "which supported"

What will be the basis for its elimination in this case?

nilohit wrote:Option B also uses "which offered" as a parallel structure to "which supported"

What will be the basis for its elimination in this case?

In B, the relative clause "which offered..." does not modify "federal government" as it should. E has this correct by placing "federal government" directly before the relative clause.

parallel structure which ***** and which ****

A not parallel

B which is modifying single provider

C not parallel

D not parallel

Answer is E.

(E)