Hi All,
Explaining that one of
its many difficulties had been the recent growing injury list among starting players, the minor league baseball team said it would start a month-long search for better physical trainers and physicians.
Meaning Analysis:The recent growing injury list had been the one of the many difficulties of the minor league baseball team. So it said that it would start a search for better physical trainers and physicians.
Error Analysis:• Singular pronoun “its” correctly refers to its singular antecedent “the minor league baseball team”.
• “The stated problems” existed before the team decided to do something about it. In fact, there is a causal relationship here. Since the team found this problem of recent growing injury list among startling players, he decided to begin a month-long search. ‘reported’ about it.Hence, use of past perfect tense for describing “one of its many difficulties” is correct. It correctly shows the sequencing of the events in the sentence.
• Adjective “recent” correctly modifies noun “injury list”. Notice here that both “recent” and “growing” are adjectives for the noun “injury list”. The “injury list” is recent and it has been growing.
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No errors.PoE: A. its many difficulties had been the recent:
Correct for reasons stated above.
B. its many difficulties has been the recently:
Incorrect.1. The difficulty occurred before the team took an action and “said that it would start a search””. Present perfect tense suggests problems happened after “said”. This sequencing is incorrect.Thus, past perfect tense is required here.
2. There is a difference between the meanings of “recent” and “recently”. “recent growing injury list” means the injury list is recent and it is growing. “recently growing injury list” that the list has started growing very recently. Per the original sentence, it is the “recent injury list”. Hence use of “recently” is incorrect.
C. its many difficulties is the recently:
Inocrrect.1. Same “recently” error as in choice B.
2. Simple present tense “is” suggests that the problems occurred after the retailer “said”. This verb sequencing is wrong.Same verb tense error as in choice B.
D. their many difficulties is the recent:
Incorrect. 1. Plural pronoun “their” does not agree with singular antecedent “team”.
2. Simple present tense “is” suggests that the problems occurred after the retailer “said”. This verb sequencing is wrong.Same verb tense error as in Choice B.
E. their many difficulties had been the recent:
Incorrect. Plural pronoun “their” does not agree with singular antecedent “team”.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha
my doubt was how can a recent (Of the immediate past or just previous to the present time) thing still be growing??