Three Ivy League schools have pulled out of E-du, an education consortium, offering undergraduate students the opportunity to take online courses for university credit after professors and alumni complained that the program would cheapen the prestige of a degree.
-present perfect tense ‘have pulled’; action started in the past and was completed
-appositive: ‘education consortium’
-comma before participial ‘offering…’ is incorrect b/c if we removed the appositive ‘offering’ would modify the schools
-the placement of the part of the sentence that begins with the preposition ‘after professors…’ requires a comma b/c this suggests that the schools offered the opportunity after complaints were made
A. of E-du, an education consortium
, offering undergraduate students the opportunity to take online courses for university credit
, after professors and alumni complained that the program would
-the placement of the comma before 'offering' is incorrect
-a comma is required before 'after'
B. from E-du, an education consortium,
and will offer undergraduate students the opportunity to take online courses for university credit
, after professors and alumni have complained that the program would
-meaning change; the consortium IS the opportunity for undergrads to take online courses and this consortium is what would cheapen the degree
-conjunction ‘and’ signals the introduction of an DC as no IC would start with ‘will’
C. of E-du, an education consortium offering undergraduate students the opportunity to take online courses for university credit, after professors and alumni complained that the program would (Correct)
-after makes it clear when the schools pulled out; the schools pulled out after the professors and alumni complained (simple past tense) which is followed nicely by ‘would cheapen’. Here, the ‘would’ is playing the role of a conditional
D. from E-du, an education consortium offering undergraduate students the opportunity to take online courses for university credit, after professors and alumni complained that the program
will-a comma is needed before ‘after’ otherwise the meaning of the sentence changes and suggests that the online offering was made after the complaints
-future perfect ‘will cheapen’ is incorrect as this is a hypothetical
E. of E-du, an education consortium that offers undergraduate students the opportunity to take online courses for university credit, after professors and alumni complained that the program
will _________________
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