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Authoritative parents are more likely than permissive parents to have children who as adolescents are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.(A) Authoritative parents are more likely than permissive parents to have children who as adolescents are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.
(B) Authoritative parents who are more likely than permissive parents to have adolescent children that are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.
(C) Children of authoritative parents, rather than permissive parents, are the more likely to be self-confident, have a high self-esteem, and to be responsibly independent as adolescents.
(D) Children whose parents are authoritative rather than being permissive, are more likely to have self-confidence, a high self-esteem, and be responsibly independent when they are an adolescent.
(E) Rather than permissive parents, the children of authoritative parents are the more likely to have self-confidence, a high self-esteem, and to be responsibly independent as an adolescent.
This question is based on Parallelism and Sentence Construction.
Option B is incomplete. The structure of the sentence as in Option B is –
Authoritative parents
(Subject) who are more likely than permissive parents to have adolescent children
(subordinate clause modifying ‘parents’) that are self-confident, high in self-esteem, and responsibly independent.
(subordinate clause modifying children)As can be seen in the split of the sentence, B is made up of a
Subject + subordinate clause + subordinate clause. There should have been a verb after the second clause to complete the sentence. Since it is missing,
the sentence is incomplete and so, Option B can be eliminated.
Option C makes
an inaccurate comparison between “Children of authoritative parents” and “permissive parents”. The comparison should have been with ‘children of permissive parents’. C also
lacks parallelism in the way the three qualities of the children are mentioned -
to be self-confident,
have a high self-esteem, and
to be responsibly independent as adolescents. So,
Option C can also be eliminated.
Option D also
lacks parallelism in the last part of the sentence –
to have self-confidence,
a high self-esteem, and
be responsibly independent when they are an adolescent.
So,
Option D can also be eliminated.
Option E
also makes an inaccurate comparison between “permissive parents” and “children of authoritative parents”. There is
also a lack of parallelism -
to have self-confidence,
a high self-esteem, and
to be responsibly independent as an adolescent – For these reasons,
Option E can be eliminated.
Option A makes
an accurate comparison between “Authoritative parents” and “permissive parents”.
The parallelism is maintained in the option –
adolescents are
self-confident,
high in self-esteem, and
responsibly independentThere are three adjective phrases to describe adolescents.
Therefore, A is the most appropriate option. Jayanthi Kumar.