1) 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.
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.
that is a relative pronoun of “large number of communities”, hence there is Subject Verb Agreement.
Eliminating option A) and B)
Option D) has the “its” which should be talking about the communities’ waterfront. Hence should be plural – Eliminated.
Option E) The sentence talks about intent “to use” and “to improve” should be used.
Hence Option C)
2) Since 1975 so many people have been moving to Utah such that Mormons who were once 75 percent of the population are now only accounting for half of it.
A. so many people have been moving to Utah such that Mormons who were once 75 percent of the population are now only accounting for half of it
B. many people have been moving to Utah, so Mormons once 75 percent of the population are now accounting for only half
C. that many people have been moving to Utah, such that the Mormons that were once 75 percent of the population are now accounting for only half of it
D. many people have been moving to Utah such that the Mormons, who once represented 75 percent of the population, now only account for half
E. so many people have been moving to Utah that the Mormons, who once represented 75 percent of the population, now account for only half
Since 1975 so many people have been moving to Utah such
that Mormons who were once 75 percent of the population are now only accounting for half of it
I have a doubt about placement of “
such” and “only” should modify half. Have been moving – present perfect continuous signifying that action started in the past still continuing in the present.
Option C) since 1975 that. that doesn’t make sense to replace 1975.
Option D) and Option B) removal of “so” decreases the degree of the people movement in the Utah.
Hence Option E)
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