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Critics of the previous championship football selection system felt that moving from a computer-ranking format to creating a playoff system would improve the integrity of the competition.
A) to creating a playoff system would improve
B) and creating a playoff system would improve
C) to a playoff system would improve
D) to a playoff system will improve
E) to creating a playoff system would have improved
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Critics of the previous championship football selection system felt that moving from a computer-ranking format to creating a playoff system would improve the integrity of the competition.
A) to creating a playoff system would improve
B) and creating a playoff system would improve
C) to a playoff system would improve
D) to a playoff system will improve
E) to creating a playoff system would have improved
HIGHLIGHTS
• Idiom tested: From X to Y
X and Y must be parallel.
The non-underlined portion commits us to
X = a computer-ranking format
X is a noun phrase.
Y must also be a noun
• Split #2 - FELT . . . would/will improve? would have improved?
Critics . . . felt is in the underlined portion of the sentence.
Felt is simple past tense.
Felt is similar to words such as believed and hoped
A belief, hope, or feeling in the past about the future requires the verb would.
-- We use will to express present beliefs about the future:
I will be happy to see my friend tomorrow.
-- Would is the past tense of will. To describe past beliefs about the future, we use would.
When the twins were young, they felt that they would never spend a day apart.
POE
• Split #1: IDIOM, From X to Y
X = a noun, a computer-ranking format
In options A and E, from is followed by the noun computer-ranking format,
but to is incorrectly followed by a verb, creating.
In option B, the idiom itself is botched as is the Y element
Option B incorrectly uses From X AND Y
As in options A and E, the Y element is a verb, creating
Eliminate A, B, and E
• a belief or feeling in the past about an event in the future takes WOULD
Option D gets the idiom correct: From a computer-ranking format to a playoff system (X and Y are both nouns)
But option D incorrectly uses the verb WILL.
Wrong: The critics felt that moving from ABC format to XYZ format WILL improve the competition.
Option E also has verb problems. We need would.
Would have been indicates something that did not happen.
In a mixed conditional, we say
If THIS thing had happened, then THAT thing would have happened. (but neither happened)
No need for this type of conditional. (E) was already omitted for another reason.
By POE, the answer is C.
-- (C) correctly uses parallel nouns in . . . moving from a computer-ranking format to a playoff system
-- Critics felt that moving from ABC to XYZ would improve. Correct.
COMMENTS
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Project SC Butler: Day 140 Sentence Correction (SC1)
Critics of the previous championship football selection system felt that moving from a computer-ranking format to creating a playoff system would improve the integrity of the competition.
A) to creating a playoff system would improve
B) and creating a playoff system would improve
C) to a playoff system would improve
D) to a playoff system will improve
E) to creating a playoff system would have improved
HIGHLIGHTS
• Idiom tested: From X to Y
X and Y must be parallel.
The non-underlined portion commits us to
X = a computer-ranking format
X is a noun phrase.
Y must also be a noun
• Split #2 - FELT . . . would/will improve? would have improved?
Critics . . . felt is in the underlined portion of the sentence.
Felt is simple past tense.
Felt is similar to words such as believed and hoped
A belief, hope, or feeling in the past about the future requires the verb would.
-- We use will to express present beliefs about the future:
I will be happy to see my friend tomorrow.
-- Would is the past tense of will. To describe past beliefs about the future, we use would.
When the twins were young, they felt that they would never spend a day apart.
POE
• Split #1: IDIOM, From X to Y
X = a noun, a computer-ranking format
In options A and E, from is followed by the noun computer-ranking format,
but to is incorrectly followed by a verb, creating.
In option B, the idiom itself is botched as is the Y element
Option B incorrectly uses From X AND Y
As in options A and E, the Y element is a verb, creating
Eliminate A, B, and E
• a belief or feeling in the past about an event in the future takes WOULD
Option D gets the idiom correct: From a computer-ranking format to a playoff system (X and Y are both nouns)
But option D incorrectly uses the verb WILL.
Wrong: The critics felt that moving from ABC format to XYZ format WILL improve the competition.
Option E also has verb problems. We need would.
Would have been indicates something that did not happen.
In a mixed conditional, we say
If THIS thing had happened, then THAT thing would have happened. (but neither happened)
No need for this type of conditional. (E) was already omitted for another reason.
By POE, the answer is C.
-- (C) correctly uses parallel nouns in . . . moving from a computer-ranking format to a playoff system
-- Critics felt that moving from ABC to XYZ would improve. Correct.
COMMENTS
Did you know that July 22 is π Approximation Day? (22/7). I just found out.
Also, if you want to make the π sign with a keyboard? Use ALT + 227, a fact I also just found out.
And July 18 was International Nelson Mandela Day. 27 years in solitary confinement.
Xylan , if memory serves, you used Mandela in one of your examples.
Where was I? (Where AM I?) Oh -- I was about to say that I am glad to see my veterans.
Answers are very good to excellent. These topic threads get hundreds, then thousands of views.
Nicely done. Kudos to all.
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Critics of the previous championship football selection system felt that moving from a computer-ranking format to creating a playoff system would improve the integrity of the competition.
Subject - Verb
- Critics of the previous championship football selection system felt
- that moving from a computer-ranking format to a playoff system would improve the integrity of the competition.
Issues:
- Moving from X to Y
- X: a computer-ranking format
Y: a playoff system
- Apart from being noun/noun-phrases to satisfy the parallelism( Grammatically), they MUST be of the same cohort( Structurally).
Answer choice analysis:
- A) to creating a playoff system would improve
- Parallelism issue: creating a playoff system is NOT parallel to a computer-ranking format
B) and creating a playoff system would improve
- Parallelism issue: creating a playoff system is NOT parallel to a computer-ranking format
Meaning issue
C) to a playoff system would improve
- Nice and easy. C is the winner!
D) to a playoff system will improve
- A prediction done in the past mandates the usage of would to signify the future-action.
- Present action + Prediction:
- Scientists PREDICT( Present-Tense) that the new space satellite WILL EASE( Future-Tense) the navigation system.
Past action + Prediction:
- Scientists PREDICTED( Past-Tense) that the new space satellite WOULD EASE( Hypothetical/Expected-usage) the navigation system.
E) to creating a playoff system would have improved
- Parallelism issue: creating a playoff system is NOT parallel to a computer-ranking format
Unsolicited subjunctive usage - would have improved
