City Planners in Detroit hope that the renewal project extending along

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City Planners in Detroit hope that the renewal project extending along the eastern riverfront will establish a population  that lives and works downtown and also provides  the office space needed to attract new businesses.

A. that lives and works downtown and also provides 
B. to live and work downtown and also provide 
C. that lives as well as works downtown and also provide 
D. which lives as well as works downtown and also provides 
E. who live as well as work downtown and also provides

temp33 · Answer

IMO C...

along the eastern riverfront will establish a population  that lives as well as works downtown and also provide

nusmavrik · Answer

Good job. Yes the OA is C.

Parallelism is with respect to "will" which never takes the singular verb. In one of the previous post I saw "population" which will take the singular verb. Population = singular subject.

will establish || will also provide

temp33 · Answer

population is singular
people is plural

seekmba · Answer

C it is.

City Planners.........hope that the renewal project......... will establish  a population  that lives and works  downtown and  also provide  the office space........

schandok · Answer

if population is SINGULAR, how does provide fit here? Shouldn't we use provides??

Somebody plz explain...

fluke · Answer

City Planners in Detroit hope that 
the renewal project extending along the eastern riverfront will:
1.establish 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>a population that lives as well as works downtown 
AND 
2.also provide 
>>>>>>>>>>>>>the office space needed to attract new businesses.

So, the big adjectival phrase "the renewal project extending along the eastern riverfront" will do two things:
1. establish a population that lives etc.(lives agrees with population)
2. provide the office space etc. (will provide--will is common to both these verbs "establish" AND "provide")

rashee65 · Answer

City Planners in Detroit hope that the renewal project extending along the eastern riverfront will establish a population  that lives and works downtown and also provides  the office space needed to attract new businesses.

Step wise elimination:
1. Renewal project(Singular) 
 Verb - establish(Singular), provide(Singular) 
  A,D and E are out 
 2. Population- singular
 So, it requires singular verb - 'lives and works' rather than 'live and work' 
   B is out 
 Answer - C 
 
A) that lives and works downtown and also provides 
B) to live and work downtown and also provide 
C) that lives as well as works downtown and also provide 
D) which lives as well as works downtown and also provides 
E) who live as well as work downtown and also provides

shikhar · Answer

Guys why is B wrong ????

I mean C definitely sounds better but why is B wrong ?? any grammatical reasons ??

egmat · Answer

Hi Shikhar,

We generally use to + verb to show the purpose of any action. For example:
• Joe started the campaign to spread awareness about the importance of literacy.
• My grandparents shifted to countryside to live in peace and tranquility.

Now with Choice B, the sentence reads: 
• City Planners in Detroit hope that the renewal project extending along the eastern riverfront will establish a population to live and work downtown and also provide the office space needed to attract new businesses.

With to + verb here, the sentence now seems to suggest that the renewal project will establish a population “in order to live and work downtown”. This is absolutely illogical. The renewal project cannot live and work. Hence, Choice B is grammatically incorrect.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha

abhishek31 · Answer

Hi, can anyone explain me when it is appropriate to use "that" vs "who"? I always get confuse between the two

DmitryFarberMPrep · Answer

"Who" is used specifically to refer to people. If we're using a collective noun--population, country, company, team, etc.--we don't use "who" because that entity is not itself a person, even though it consists of people.

kunalbean · Answer

Can somebody please explain why is A incorrect?

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AjiteshArun · Answer

This is the sentence option A leads to:

City Planners in Detroit hope that the renewal project extending along the eastern riverfront will establish a population that lives and works downtown and also provides the office space needed to attract new businesses.

They hope that the project  will   establish  and  provide . If we go with  provides  (singular), it will sound as if the  population  provides office space.

A population that  lives  and  works  downtown and also  provides  the office space.

Shrey9 · Answer

DmitryFarber

As given In option D, "which" after "population" would be okay, if "lives" (and/as well as) "works" and "provide" would have been there ? 
or "and"/ "as well as" matters here, too ?

saury2k · Answer

Can someone tell me who is the subject of "Provides", it can't be population. The city renewal project looks like a viable subject, and is singular. Please clear the doubt.

AjiteshArun · Answer

This is the sentence option C leads to:

City Planners in Detroit hope that   the renewal  project   extending along the eastern riverfront     will  (a) establish   a population that lives as well as works downtown   and  also (b)  provide  the office space needed to attract new businesses.

The  will  is the reason that we don't see a  provides  there ( the project   will provide ).

Sg185 · Answer

Isnt this ambiguous?
Comparing A and C, 
provides - "the population provides the rental space" (I don't see why that's unlikely, maybe its planned such that the population (has bought/) will buy property there and will lend it out to businesses?)

Provide - the renewal plan establishes.. And provides..

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