tarek99 wrote:
The Sports Medicine Programs of the Olympic Training Center, a complex where final tryouts are held for athletes representing the United States in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation for international competition.
a) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation
b) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
c) are geared to enhance athletes' performance and their preparation
d) are geared toward the enhancement of athletes' performance and toward preparing them
e) are geared toward enhancing the performance of athletes and preparing them
ANSWER IS E
The first decision point is to
find the subject of the sentence and its grammatical number (singular or plural)Lets do that here by removing non essential parenthetical information from the sentence
The Sports Medicine Programs
of the Olympic Training Center,
a complex where final tryouts are held for athletes representing the United States in the Olympics, is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance
and toward their preparation for international competition.
As we can see the Subject is "PROGRAMS" which is plural, therefore our options will start with "ARE" and not "IS"
A and B are out
SECONDLY we can see that the coordinating conjunction "AND" is used therefore there should be separate subjects in each clause before and after "and"
a) is geared toward enhancing athletes' performance and toward their preparation
WRONG:- SV AGREEMENT
b) is geared to enhance the performance of athletes and to prepare them
WRONG:- SV AGREEMENT
c) are geared to enhance
athletes' performance and their preparationWRONG:-
athletes' is used not as a noun but as an
adjective that modifies the noun
performance. The position of the apostrophe in athletes' denoted that it is used as an adjective. The subject of the clause becomes performance
Therefore there is pronoun error in the clause. "Their " is a pronoun that refers back to
performance but logically it should refer back to
athlete.
d) are geared toward the
enhancement of
athletes' performance and toward
preparing themWRONG:- Not parallel - "enhancement" and "preparing" are not parallel forms of verb
SAME AS C.
athletes' is used not as a noun but as an
adjective that modifies the noun
performance. The position of the apostrophe in athletes' denoted that it is used as an adjective. The subject of the clause becomes performance
Therefore there is pronoun error in the clause. "Their " is a pronoun that refers back to performance but logically it should refer back to
athlete.
e) are geared toward
enhancing the performance of
athletes and
preparing themCORRECT:- A proper subject
athletes (plural) exist in the second clause and the pronoun "
them" correctly refers back to athlete.
Enhancing and
preparing are parallel