Project SC Butler: Day 26: Sentence Correction (SC1)
For SC butler Questions Click HereAlthough the Supreme Court ruled as long ago as 1880 that Blacks could not be excluded outright from jury service, nearly a century of case-by-case adjudication
has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be drawn from “a fair cross section of the community.”
(A) has been necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
(B) was necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all juries being
(C) was to be necessary in developing and enforcing the principle of all juries to be
(D) is necessary to develop and enforce the principle that all juries must be
(E) will be necessary for developing and enforcing the principle of all juries being
Choice A is best: has been appropriately refers to recently completed action. In B, was does not indicate that the action is recent. Also, necessary for developing . . .is less idiomatic than necessary to develop . . . , and principle of all juries being is less direct than principle that all juries must be. The to be infinitives make choice C incorrect. The present tense is in D and the future tense will be in E make these choices faulty.