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A teacher at the school acknowledged that, despite government sponsored endeavors to improve classroom performance, an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education.

A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education
B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education
D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high
E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education
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B it is: an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education

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A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education
B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education
D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high
E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education
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A teacher at the school acknowledged that, despite government sponsored endeavors to improve classroom performance, an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education.

A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education
B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education
D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high
E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education
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Subject-Verb agreement

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A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education

School is singular

B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education

Correct

C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education

Students is plural

D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high

School is singular

E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education

Students is plural
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A teacher at the school acknowledged that, despite government sponsored endeavors to improve classroom performance, an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education.

A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education
B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education
D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high
E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education
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Can someone explain the difference between extraordinary and extraordinarily?
i think it should be extraordinary, which is an adjective modifying high percentage
But, how is the usage of extraordinarily correct here?
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A teacher at the school acknowledged that, despite government sponsored endeavors to improve classroom performance, an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education.

A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education
B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education
D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high
E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education

Can someone explain the difference between extraordinary and extraordinarily?
i think it should be extraordinary, which is an adjective modifying high percentage
But, how is the usage of extraordinarily correct here?
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Hi

You're right that 'extraordinary' is an adjective.

An adjective is used to modify a noun; whereas an adverb can modify a verb, an adjective or another adverb.

In the given case 'extraordinarily' is modifying 'high' (an adjective), which is further modifying the noun, percentage.

Does it help?
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A teacher at the school acknowledged that, despite government sponsored endeavors to improve classroom performance, an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education.

A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education
B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education
D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high
E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education

Subject-Verb agreement

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A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education

School is singular

B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education

Correct

C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education

Students is plural

D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high

School is singular

E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education

Students is plural
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I don't understand what's the subject of the sentence.
It's seem like the answer choice has to be a full sentence itself because it's after 'that'

but the sentence starts with "an extraordinarily high percentage of its students" .. is it ok to be the subject
B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
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A teacher at the school acknowledged that, despite government sponsored endeavors to improve classroom performance, an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education.

A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education
B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education
D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high
E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education

Subject-Verb agreement

--------

A. an extraordinary high percentage of their students fail to gain admission to higher education

School is singular

B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education

Correct

C. an extraordinary high percentage of its students fails to gain admission to higher education

Students is plural

D. the percentage of their students failing to gain admission to higher education is extraordinarily high

School is singular

E. a high percentage of its students, extraordinarily high in fact, fails to gain admission to higher education

Students is plural

I don't understand what's the subject of the sentence.
It's seem like the answer choice has to be a full sentence itself because it's after 'that'

but the sentence starts with "an extraordinarily high percentage of its students" .. is it ok to be the subject
B. an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education
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A. Structure

The main clause of the sentence:
The teacher acknowledged. (teacher subject, acknowledged verb)

The subordinate clause of the sentence:
that despite government sponsored endeavors to improve classroom performance, an extraordinarily high percentage of its students fail to gain admission to higher education.

The blue-highlighted portion after that itself is a complete clause with percentage as the subject and fail as the verb.

It is absolutely alright to have percentage as the subject.

A portion of the pizza is eaten.... there is no problem with portion being the subject.

B. Singular or plural subject?

Now is the subject (percentage) of this subordinate clause singular or plural?

Quantity words such as fractions and percentage takes up the number of the noun with which it is associated.

10% of the slices are eaten.
10% of the pizza is eaten.

Therefore the the subject percentage is plural here since it is associated with students - percentage of students.
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