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Kaplan's Official Explanation -

In "their debate," the original sentence incorrectly uses the plural pronoun "their" to refer to the body of "the Constitutional Convention." Another problem is that "called … for addressing" uses an idiomatically incorrect preposition. A meeting is called to address an issue. Finally, the word "if" is used when a decision is between two choices (to count or not to count slaves); the correct word in this situation is "whether."

After eliminating (A), look at the remaining choices. Each starts with a different proposition. Only correct answer (C) begins with the idiomatically correct "to address," and this wording also preserves the intended meaning of the sentence.

If this detail escaped your notice, there are other differences among the choices. (B), (D), and (E) all use plural pronouns—"their" or "they"—to refer to the Convention. (C) avoids using a pronoun, substituting "the debate." In addition, (D) and (E) keep "if" instead of using "whether," so they can be eliminated for this reason as well.

TAKEAWAY: Even if you're not sure about whether an answer choice is idiomatically correct, other errors can guide you to the right answer. In this case, it was important to make sure pronouns agreed in number with their antecedent.

@yashikaaggarwal, Its Great that you post the official Explanation. But Aren't you suppose to reveal POE later, after other students try solving question by themselves?

Thanks for making this better. You mean "the explanation" to be revealed later or the OA?

In the either way, i feel it is okay to have the OA and the explanation by the same source posted at the same time in that a person can check and try to understand the explanation immediately after attempting it and then post relevant doubts if any left.
But, again that's my opinion.Feel free to share your point and we can do whatever it best for the community.

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