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With a new park, stadium, and entertainment complex along the Delaware River, Trenton, New Jersey, is but one of a large number of communities that is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.
(A) is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(B) is looking at using its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(C) are looking to use their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(D) are looking to use its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting
(E) are looking at using their waterfronts as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attract
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(A) is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(B) is looking at using its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(C) are looking to use their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
(D) are looking to use its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting
(E) are looking at using their waterfronts as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attract
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https://www.nytimes.com/1985/09/30/us/midwest-cities-find-new-economic-life-on-old-waterfronts.html
Cleveland is just one of a large number of Middle Western cities that are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of life and attract people and businesses back downtown.
Cleveland is just one of a large number of Middle Western cities that are looking to their waterfronts to improve the quality of life and attract people and businesses back downtown.
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In normal terms, a non-essential relative pronoun such as ‘which’ or an essential modifier such as ‘that’ will incline to modify the noun that is just before and take an appropriate verb depending upon the number of the noun, mostly plural, ----- except when the subject ‘one’ is preceded by the definite article ‘the’.
In the context, look at the subtle difference between the two types
1. Trenton, New Jersey, is ‘but one of’ a large number of communities ‘that is looking to’ use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.
2. Trenton, New Jersey, is but ‘the one of’ a large number of communities ‘that is looking’ to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.
Since the definite article is absent in the first case, the relative pronoun ‘that’ will modify the plural ‘communities’ and take on a plural verb ‘are looking’.
In the second case, since the definite article ‘the’ is present the focus prima-facie shifts to the article ‘the’, which restricts the number to singular. Hence, in the second case, the modifier ‘that’ in spite of its essentiality will go along taking a singular verb ‘is looking’.
In this topic, the plural verb ‘are looking’ is grammatically fitting.
That said, the choice falls among C, D and E; in the context, C is the best for using the right idiom ‘looking to use’ and for remaining parallel. D has serious SV mis-match of using ‘are looking to use its’. E uses the wrong idiom ‘looking at’ in addition to being unparallel.
There is another way to arrive at the destination without bothering about the S-V number agreement. First consider the idiom. Remove all ‘looking at’ choices. A, C and D are left Then dump D for the blatant S-V mismatch. A is wordy and imprecise. C is forthright and crisp. Done?
In the context, look at the subtle difference between the two types
1. Trenton, New Jersey, is ‘but one of’ a large number of communities ‘that is looking to’ use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.
2. Trenton, New Jersey, is but ‘the one of’ a large number of communities ‘that is looking’ to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract new businesses.
Since the definite article is absent in the first case, the relative pronoun ‘that’ will modify the plural ‘communities’ and take on a plural verb ‘are looking’.
In the second case, since the definite article ‘the’ is present the focus prima-facie shifts to the article ‘the’, which restricts the number to singular. Hence, in the second case, the modifier ‘that’ in spite of its essentiality will go along taking a singular verb ‘is looking’.
In this topic, the plural verb ‘are looking’ is grammatically fitting.
That said, the choice falls among C, D and E; in the context, C is the best for using the right idiom ‘looking to use’ and for remaining parallel. D has serious SV mis-match of using ‘are looking to use its’. E uses the wrong idiom ‘looking at’ in addition to being unparallel.
There is another way to arrive at the destination without bothering about the S-V number agreement. First consider the idiom. Remove all ‘looking at’ choices. A, C and D are left Then dump D for the blatant S-V mismatch. A is wordy and imprecise. C is forthright and crisp. Done?
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I agree. Consider this simpler example:
Jack is but one of the talent show performers that are planning to rehearse here tonight.
Following noun modifier rules, if only Jack plans to rehearse, we'd have to move the modifier closer to him:
Jack, who is planning to rehearse here tonight, is but one of the talent show performers.
Even if you ignore the is/are verb split, you should still arrive at the answer C. Some of these have been mentioned above, but not the wordiness issue found in A, D, E.
A) is looking to use its waterfront as a way for it to improve the quality of urban life and attract
Wordiness
B) is looking at using its waterfront to improve the quality of urban life and attract
Idiom ("looking to use X" is prefered)
C) are looking to use their waterfronts to improve the quality of urban life and attract
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D) are looking to use its waterfront as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attracting
mismatch of are/its
Wordiness
E) are looking at using their waterfronts as a way of improving the quality of urban life and attract.
Idiom ("looking to use X" is prefered)
Wordiness
Lack of Parallelism
