pranjalikharche wrote:
1. Students at Carver High School are encouraged to pursue only those extracurricular activities from which stems success in college applications.
2. Students at Carver High School are encouraged to pursue only those extracurricular activities from which success in college applications stems.
a) 1st is correct
b) 2nd is correct
c) both are correct
d) none of them are correct.
Please provide explanation as well for why they are wrong or right.
IMO 2nd one is correct. So B
For the 1st sentence the subject verb inversion does not work very well.
1. Students at Carver High School are encouraged to pursue only those extracurricular activities from which
stems success in college applications.Because "from" is a preposition, "which" starts a new clause, which needs a subject and a verb pair in the order that makes it clear to the reader
I believe these 2 versions will be better than the one above.
a. Students at Carver High School are encouraged to pursue only those extracurricular activities from which
success stems in college applications.b. Students at Carver High School are encouraged to pursue only those extracurricular activities, which
stems success in college applications. - here "which" is the subject and "stems" is the verb