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Bench-Warming Basketball Players

by nidhis.1408 » Mon Oct 08, 2012 8:06 am
The surge of the bench-warming basketball player to the starting lineup was positively received by the city, where hopes for a good team that would actually make it to the playoffs had been dwindling day by day earlier in the season.

(A) city, where hopes for a good team that would actually make it to the playoffs had been dwindling

(B) city whose hopes for a good team that would actually make it to the playoffs had been dwindling

(C) city where hopes for a good team that would actually make it to the playoffs had been dwindled

(D) city, whose hopes for a good team that would actually make it to the playoffs had been dwindled

(E) city, the site of dwindling hopes for a good team that would actually make it to the playoffs
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by Jim@StratusPrep » Mon Oct 08, 2012 9:02 am
the city here is a collective noun for all the people in the city. Thus, 'whose' is used and only B and D stand. D implies that the hopes stopped sinking, but the idea is that this was a consistent feeling.

B is correct.
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