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AmongthesportsplayedprimarilybywomenintheUnitedStatesisfieldhockey,whichisoneofthemostpopular
men'ssportsinSouthAsia,andvolleyball,thesportofmanymaleathletesinEuropeandSouthAmerica.

AmongthesportsplayedprimarilybywomenintheUnitedStatesisfieldhockey,whichisoneof

IntheUnitedStates,amongthesportsplayedprimarilybywomenarefieldhockey,oneof

PlayedintheUnitedStatesprimarilybywomen,fieldhockeyisamong

SportsplayedprimarilybywomenintheUnitedStates,includingfieldhockey,oneof

OneofthesportsplayedintheUnitedStatesprimarilybywomenisfieldhockey,among

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Thissentenceisintendedtohighlightacontrast:intheUnitedStates,fieldhockeyandvolleyballareprimarily
women'ssports,but,inotherareasoftheworld,theyareheavilycontestedbymen.Toconveythismessage
effectively,thesentencemustemployseveralgrammaticalelementsproperly.

First,modifiersmustbecarefullyplaced.Forinstance,theconstructionplayedprimarilybywomenintheUnited
States,presentintheoriginalprompt,suggeststheinterpretationthatwomenintheUnitedStatesconstitutemostof
theparticipantsinthesesportsanillogicalinterpretation,giventheimmediatelyfollowingfacts.Thesentencemust
thereforeberearrangedtoclarifytheideathatintheUnitedStatestheseareprimarilywomen'ssports,but
elsewheretheyarenot.

Second,fieldhockeyandvolleyballisacompoundnoun.Therefore,ifthisnounisthesubjectofaverbinthe
sentence,thatverbmustbeplural.

Finally,fieldhockeyandvolleyballarebothfollowedbydescriptivemodifiersideally,thosemodifiersshouldbe
expressedinformsthatareassimilaraspossible.

(A)Thesingularverbisdoesnotagreewiththepluralnounfieldhockeyandvolleyball.Additionally,themodifiers

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describingfieldhockeyandvolleyball(whichisoneofandthesportof)arenotexpressedinsimilarforms.
Finally,themodifierintheUnitedStatesappearstodescribewomen,thusillogicallyimplyingthatAmericanwomen
makeupmostoftheworld'sfieldhockeyandvolleyballplayers.

(B)CORRECT.Inthissentence,themodifierIntheUnitedStatesisclearlyplacedsoastomodifytheentire
followingclause,clarifyingtheideathatthestatusoffieldhockeyandvolleyballaswomen'ssportsisa
phenomenonlimitedtotheUnitedStates(andnotillogicallyimplyingthatAmericanwomenconstitutemostofthe
world'sfieldhockeyandvolleyballplayers).Thepluralsubjectfieldhockeyandvolleyballiscorrectlypairedwith
thepluralverbare.Finally,themodifiersfollowingfieldhockeyandvolleyballarebothappositivemodifiers,
strengtheningthecohesivenessofthatparallelstructure.

(C)Thischoicecreatesthecompleteclausefieldhockeyisamongthemostpopularmen'ssportsinSouthAsia.As
aresult,theelementfollowing"and"consistingonlyofvolleyballandamodifierisnotparalleltoanything,andthe
resultingconstructionisarunonsentence.Inaddition,themodifierPlayedintheUnitedStatesprimarilybywomen,
whichisintendedtodescribebothsports,appearstodescribeonlyfieldhockey.

(D)ThemodifierintheUnitedStatesappearstodescribewomen,thusillogicallyimplyingthatAmericanwomen
makeupmostoftheworld'sfieldhockeyandvolleyballplayers.Additionally,thischoicecreatesasentence
fragment.Thenounsportsisfollowedonlybymodifiersthereisnomainverb.

(E)Thesingularverbisdoesnotagreewiththepluralnounfieldhockeyandvolleyball.Additionally,thischoice
illogicallydescribesfieldhockeyandvolleyballas"oneofthesports...",buttheseareinfacttwodifferentsports.

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