Re: Rejecting the apprenticeship model of training social worker

Rejecting the apprenticeship model of training social workers in philanthropic agencies, twentieth-century reformer Edith Abbott was convinced of social work education belonging in
the university so that students could be offered a broad range of courses dealing with social issues.

(A) of social work education belonging in the university so that

(B) that social work education should be in the university, and that
(C) about the importance of social work education belonging in the university while
(D) that social work education belonged in the university, where
(E) of the necessity of social work education being in the university and

Answer:D

why?could u explain the reason?i am confused.i can not see points.

thanks in advance.

See the reds above. We can rule out A C E

Now between B & D, B makes an attempt to be parallel but is not. the comma before and makes it wrong. Also using and splits it into two ideas and changes the meaning. using and that means Abbot was convinced of X and Y. But sentence does not mean that. The second part of the sentence in D correctly uses where to modify university and expresses the idea accurately. Another reason why B is wrong is the usage of should.

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