In an effort improve the quality of patient care, Dr. Lydia Temoscho is directing one of several clinical research projects that seek to determine the extent that psychological counseling helps to supplement the medical treatment of serious disease.
(A) seek to determine the extent that psychological counseling helps to supplement
(B) seek to determine how helpful psychological counseling is in supplementing
(C) seeks to determine how helpful psychological counseling is to supplement
(D) seeks to determine to what extent psychological counseling is a help in supplementing
(E) seeks to determine the extent that psychological counseling is helpful in supplementing
As pointed out earlier, SV pair here is projects-seek.
C D E out.
I want to focus a great deal on option A, explain why option A is incorrect.
Original sentence as it is
In an effort improve the quality of patient care, Dr. Lydia Temoscho is directing one of several clinical research projects
that seek to determine the extent
that psychological counseling helps to supplement the medical treatment of serious disease.
I have no problem with the first that,referring back to projects.
The second that after extent, what is "that" doing there?
The word “that” primarily has four different uses in English:
a) as a demonstrative adjective
The word “that” can be used as a demonstrative adjective, that is to say, as a noun-modifier that indicates precisely which noun is meant. In this role, it always immediately precedes the noun it modifies.
I enjoyed that Netflix series.
b) as a demonstrative pronoun
The word “that” can be used as a demonstrative pronoun. Like any pronoun, in this role the word “that” stands in for a noun, and of course, the noun it represents must be a proper antecedent somewhere in the sentence.
Ex:
That looks like the
car I used to drive. That points to car
c) as a subordinate conjunction
The word “that” can be used as a subordinate conjunction, that is, as a word that marks the beginning of a dependent clause.
Ex: The teacher is confident
that her students mastered the lesson.
d) as a relative pronoun
The word “that” can be used as a relative pronoun; in other words, as a pronoun that begins a subordinate clause and is the subject of that clause.
Ex: There is no English word
that rhymes with orange.
Coming back to the original sentence, the second that is definitely not acting as a subordinate conjunction or as a relative pronoun.
Is that acting as demonstrative pronoun? is there a logical antecedent to the second that? -
NOHow about that referring back to extent, as a demonstrative adjective? does not make sense. replace that with extent and see how illogical sentence becomes.
In an effort improve the quality of patient care, Dr. Lydia Temoscho is directing one of several clinical research projects that seek to determine the extent extent
that psychological counseling helps to supplement the medical treatment of serious disease.
Therefore option B.
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