kingb wrote:
Margaret Mead, the best-known anthropologist of the twentieth century, helped shape public opinion on fundamentally important areas like attitudes toward children and families, along with the relative merits of competition and cooperation.
A. shape public opinion on fundamentally important areas
like attitudes toward children and families,
along with1)the sentence is trying to introduce an example here so such as should be used
2)Also along with the relative merits of competition and cooperation is acting as a modifier modifying public opinion on fundamentally important areas which is incorrect.
B. shape public opinion in such fundamentally important areas as attitudes toward children and families and
This option is correct
C. to shape public opinion about such fundamentally important areas
like attitudes toward children and families,
also aboutSame reason as A
D.
the shaping of public opinion for fundamentally important areas such as attitudes toward children and families, and
those toward
1)helped the shaping of is unclear (as per my thinking)
2)Pronoun those does not have antecedent
E.
the shaping of public opinion around fundamentally important areas like attitudes toward children and families, and
those of1)helped the shaping of is unclear (as per my thinking)
2)Pronoun those does not have antecedent
3)Such as should be used to introduce example