Psychologist Carl Jung used the term “extrovert”

The easiest decision point is the presence/absence of "on" in the second part of the sentence...

A....to denote a personality type in which the primary focus of the individual rests on objective criteria, defined as people, places, or things external to the individual, rather than on subjective ones.

E.... to denote a personality type with a primary focus on objective criteria, defined as people, places, or things external to the individual, rather than a subjective one

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Psychologist Carl Jung used the term “extrovert” to denote a personality type in which the primary focus of the individual rests on objective criteria, defined as people, places, or things external to the individual, rather than on subjective ones.

The sentence talks about the psychologist who used the term "extrovert" to denote (shows intention) a personality type in which the primary focus OF THE INDIVIDUAL rests ON something RATHER THAN ON something else.


Subject verb:
1) Psychologist (S)..............Used (V)
2) Primary focus (S) ..............rests (V)

Tense: The sentence talks about a fact that is true even today. Therefore simple present tense (rests) shows that it is true even today. Simple past tense (used) shows that the action is over and is in the past. There are no sequences of events in this sentence.

Modifiers:
1) in which ..............refers to the personality type

Parallelism:
1) on X rather than on Y


A. to denote a personality type in which the primary focus of the individual rests on objective criteria, defined as people, places, or things external to the individual, rather than on subjective ones
INCORRECT

B. denoting a personality type in which the primary focus of the individual rests on objective criteria, defined as people, places, or things external to the individual, rather than on subjective ones
DENOTING (VERB-ING) FAILS TO SHOW HIS INTENTION AS TO WHY HE USED THAT TERM.

C. to denote a personality type in whom the primary focus of the individual rests on objective criteria, defined as people, places, or things external to the individual, rather than subjective ones
INCORRECT. Parallelism error and type in whom. I am not really sure this makes sense.

D. to denote a personality type that has as its focus objective criteria, defined to be people, places, or things external to the individual, rather than subjective ones
INCORRECT. Parallelism error and modifier error which changes the meaning.

E. to denote a personality type with a primary focus on objective criteria, defined as people, places, or things external to the individual, rather than a subjective one.

INCORRECT. Same errors as in D.

This sentence is correct as written.

Since the underlined portion of the sentence contains the phrase defined as, check whether this phrase is used correctly. In this case, defined as is the correct form of the idiom. There appears to be no error in the original sentence, so keep choice A. Because there is no error in the original sentence, there are no obvious repeaters to look for, so evaluate the remaining answer choices individually, looking for reasons to eliminate each.

Choice B changes the verb to denote to denoting, creating a sentence fragment, so eliminate choice B. Choice C incorrectly uses the pronoun whom instead of which to refer to personality type, which is a pronoun agreement error, and also uses rather than subjective ones, which is not parallel to rests on objective criteria because the on after rather than is missing, so eliminate choice C. Choice D uses the phrase defined to be rather than the correct idiom defined as, so eliminate choice D. Choice E uses the phrase a primary focus on objective criteria, which is not parallel to rather than a subjective one because the on after rather than is missing, so eliminate choice E.

Choice A: Correct

Choice B: No. The use of the verb denoting creates a sentence fragment. Fragment.

Choice C: No. The pronoun whom incorrectly refers to personality type. Rather than subjective ones is not parallel to rests on objective criteria. Pronoun agreement; Parallel construction.

Choice D: No. This choice uses the structure defined to be rather than the correct structure defined as. Idiom.

Choice E: No. A primary focus on objective criteria is not parallel to rather than a subjective one. Parallel construction.

The correct answer is choice A.

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