sudarshan22 wrote:
Project SC Butler: Day 15: Sentence Correction (SC1)
For SC butler Questions Click HereRoy Wilkins was among the last of a generation of civil rights activists who led the nation through decades of change
so profound many young Americans are not able to imagine, even less to remember, what segregation was like.
(A) so profound many young Americans are not able to imagine, even less to remember
(B) so profound that many young Americans cannot imagine, much less remember
(C) so profound many young Americans cannot imagine nor even less remember
(D) of such profundity many young Americans cannot imagine, even less can they remember
(E) of such profundity that many young Americans are not able to imagine, much less to remember
The best/excellent answers get kudos. There can be no best answer, or a few excellent answers! Idiom:
So X that Y
(A) so profound many young Americans are not able to imagine, even less to remember
- Wrong: 1) Structure: Missing "that" 2) Concision: "cannot" is better than "are not able to" 3) Don't need "to" before "remember" (B) so profound that many young Americans cannot imagine, much less remember
- Correct(C) so profound many young Americans cannot imagine nor even less remember
- Wrong: 1) Structure: Missing "that" (D) of such profundity many young Americans cannot imagine, even less can they remember
- Wrong: 1) Structure: Missing "that" 2) Redundancy: "that" before "remember" (E) of such profundity that many young Americans are not able to imagine, much less to remember
- Wrong: 1) Concision: "cannot" is better than "are not able to" 2) Don't need "to" before "remember"