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I think this the explanation isn't clear enough, please elaborate. Hi, I could not understand the last part "and whatever your background" . Can you help me understand what this is?

I also am having trouble understanding how "and your needs" is the correct use.

When we use the 'whether' shouldnt it we for the conjunction 'OR' instead of 'And'
"Whether this or that" isn't that the way to use whether.

Oh alright! That was helpful. Thanks!

Hi Expert,

Though i got this question correct, but i got one doubt in sentence.

Substituting correct answer choice D in the original sentence.

Menlo University‘s range of graduate programmes has been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever your background.

Breaking down the above sentence into clauses and marking the Subject Verb pairs
Above sentence got three clauses as below

Range[S] has been[V] developed

You[S] intend[V] to pursue

whatever[S] your background

I understand the verb is missing the third clause

the clause should be " whatever[S] is[V] your background"

Experts kindly comments.
Thanks
Sahil

I have seen the word "whatever" used to introduce a clause as well as a phrase.

Correct: Whatever the case, I shall go there tomorrow. (phrase)
Correct: Whatever is the case, I shall go there tomorrow. (clause)

Programmes have been developed to fulfill your needs, whatever your background.... this construction is alright.

However it would be better if a clause were used since in the construction X AND Y, X and Y should be parallel.

Programmes have been developed to fulfill your needs, whether you intend to pursue.
Programmes have been developed to fulfill your needs, whatever your background (is).

Joining the above two:
Programmes have been developed to fulfill your needs, whether you intend to pursue AND whatever your background (is).

I think this is a high-quality question and the explanation isn't clear enough, please elaborate.

Hello sayantanc2k,

I got correct answer by eliminating the incorrect option choices.
However I have one doubt about the comma before and in the correct answer choice-
Menlo University‘s range of graduate programs has been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever your background.

Can you please elaborate the correct usage of comma before AND
as per my understanding, we use comma, AND mainly in two scenarios
1. IC, (FANBOYS) IC
2. list with more than two items X, Y, and Z (in this case before the last item in the list we don't use comma)
and NO COMMA - when we have only two items in the list : X and Y

Range is singular hence verb should be has,use whether for alternatives or choices and
Answer D

E has pronoun error one intends and your background .is wrong

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has been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs [color=#ffff00]or[/color] academia, and whatever

- I've read that the closed parallel marker, Whether/Or, can only be used to compare two elements; however, this examples appears to list 4. Can you elaborate.

A. have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
B. has been developed to fulfil your needs if you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, or whatever
C. have been developed for fulfilling your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
D. has been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
E. has been developed to fulfil your needs whether one intends to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, or whatever

A,C - Subject verb agreement "Range" singular with plural verb "have"
B - Usage of conditional "if" is wrong. It should be "whether"
E - Pronoun issue --> "your" and "one" 2 separate pronoun used.

Hence, D is the answer.

[quote="souvik101990"]Official Solution:

Menlo University‘s range of graduate programmes have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever your background is.

A. have been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
B. has been developed to fulfil your needs if you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, or whatever
C. have been developed for fulfilling your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
D. has been developed to fulfil your needs whether you intend to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, and whatever
E. has been developed to fulfil your needs whether one intends to pursue a career in industry, business, government, NGOs or academia, or whatever

A - Singular 'Range' will take singular 'has' and not plural 'have'. B - the usage of 'if' is incorrect since 'if' should be used only while making a conditional statement and 'whether' should be used to evaluate alternatives. The usage of 'or' is also incorrect since the two events are mutually exclusive, hence we need 'and' to make the meaning clear. C - Singular 'Range' will take singular 'has' and not plural 'have'. 'For fulfilling' is unidiomatic E - 'your' needs is not parallel with ‗one‘ intends. The usage of 'or' is also incorrect.

Answer: D[/quote


Can anyone please explain this part " The usage of 'or' is also incorrect since the two events are mutually exclusive, hence we need 'and' to make the meaning clear."


Need some more clarity on this part.

I am making an effort to answer your query.

Two events are mutually exclusive means you have to consider joining two clauses to make a sentence.

Event-1

you intend to pursue a career in industry

Event-2

whatever your background is.


To join both the events, we have to use 'and'. For example:

you intend to pursue a career in industry,.... and whatever your background is.


Full-sentence pattern patten

................has been developed to fulfil your needs whether (or not) you intend to pursue a career in industry, and whatever your background is.


Thank you.