Question

Read the sentence, and then identify its error by selecting the appropriate answer choice. members of the community donated books to the new charter school in the hope that they would be a success. would be community donated that they no error to the new charter school

Answer 1

1. metaphor
2.long and thoughtful
3.correct
4.incorrect
5.incorrect

Answer 2

I would select "that they" as the error for this sentence.

Step-by-step explanation:

When the author of the sentence chose to use the pronoun "they", he/she made the sentence ambiguous. There are two possible antecedents for the pronoun:

Members of the community donated books to the new charter school in the hope that they would be a success.

Since the third-person plural pronoun "they" can refer to both "members" and "books", which are third-person plural nouns, the sentence is unclear. Who or what would be a success? The members would be a success? The books would be a success? Let's see two possible changes to correct the sentence:

1. Members of the community who hoped to be a success donated books to the new charter school.

2. Members of the community donated books to the new charter school in the hope that the books would be a success.