<p>Last month a committee [created] [in response to] employees' [demands for] safer working conditions [has sponsored] a workshop on industrial safety.</p>
<p>I don't even understand what is going on in this sentence =/</p>
<p>I’m really not sure about this one as its meaning is so obscure. I guess the sentence is trying to say something like “the committee made a sponsorship for a workshop on industrial safety as a response to the employees’ demands for safer working conditions.” so if that is what the sentence is trying to say then D is incorrect.
A) is a correct tense form so I guess there’s no way it is A
B) in response to is a correct idiomatic usage
C) demands for is also a correct idiomatic usage
E) if the sentence is no error then it makes no sense at all…
those are my guesses, I’m not sure though. only if you find the correct answer D, consider my attempts to explain. :)</p>
<p>I’m pretty sure it’s D, because it says last month, yet “has sponsored” does not agree with that.
It’s trying to say that a committee, which was created in response to employees’ demands for safer working conditions, sponsored a workshop on industrial safety last month. Or at least I’m pretty sure that’s what it is… Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>
<p>I sometimes need to skip reading the prepositional phrase so the sentence would read:
Last month a committee created has sponsored a workshop on industrial safety.
My whole point about skipping the prepositional phrase is to see what the committee has created… since I can’t find exactly what it created, I guess has sponsored should be replaced by the noun, in this case, sponsorship.</p>
<p>I believe it is D also. It uses present perfect tense and it should be past tense I believe.</p>
<p>The answer is D. </p>
<p>Can someone give a corrected version of a sentence? [has] should be changed to what?</p>
<p>as I mentioned, it can’t be as all others say, past tense, this is nothing related to parallelism. The verb created is transitive, meaning, it needs to have an object; in this case the object should be sponsorship to. Try to read the sentence without the prepositional phrase “in response to employees’ demands for safer working conditions”. The committee created a sponsorship. :)</p>
<p>yes! Thanks so much!</p>
<p>But that’s an entirely different meaning from what I got… Bleh
I’m pretty sure that “created in response to…” is a participial phrase referring to the committee.</p>
<p>^that’s absolutely right. this question confused me. :/</p>
<p>Uhh I think the reason its D is because of the tense</p>
<p>it says “last month”</p>
<p>therefore should be “sponsored” instead of “has sponsored”</p>