Praxis 5362 Practice Question
Some people think New Orleans is the best city for people who like Creole food and live music in the United States. This sentence does not conform to standard English syntax due to the relative placement of the
Correct Answer: D
Rationale: The placement of the prepositional phrase "for people who like Creole food and live music" disrupts the flow of the sentence. It creates ambiguity about what "the best city" refers to, making it less clear.
Option A, a quantifying determiner, does not apply as there is no issue with quantity in the sentence. Option B, a superlative adjective, is used correctly to indicate the best city, so it is not the source of the problem. Option C, a noun phrase, also functions correctly in context. Thus, the prepositional phrase is the element that causes syntactical confusion.
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