charanrana
The boundaries of the Pleasant Valley School District
have and will continue to include the small cities of Millerton, Cedarville, Granite, and Homersfield.
A. have and will continue to include
B. have included and will continue to include
C. has included and will continue to include
D. has and will continue to include
E. include and will include
Subject of the clause is The boundaries which is plural, hence have will be the correct form of verb. additionally the presence of and indicates parallelism must be maintained, and additionally we have a list in the non-underlined portion of the sentence. Thus parallelism must be maintained with the list
A) Verb is correct. but parallelism is not maintained. To see the issue, Let's break down the sentence
1) The boundaries of the Pleasant Valley School District have the small cities of Millerton, Cedarville, Granite, and Homersfield.
2) The boundaries of the Pleasant Valley School District will continue to include the small cities of Millerton, Cedarville, Granite, and Homersfield.
Clearly 1, and 2 are not parallel
B) Correct. lets look the parallelism
1) The boundaries of the Pleasant Valley School District have included the small cities of Millerton, Cedarville, Granite, and Homersfield.
2) The boundaries of the Pleasant Valley School District will continue to include the small cities of Millerton, Cedarville, Granite, and Homersfield.
its maintained, and intended meaning is clear
C) SV agreement error
D) SV agreement error
E) Parallelism, and meaning error
hence correct answer should be B