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.

[quote="stock.mojo11
See the reds above. We can rule out A C E

Hi,stock.mojo11
thanks
umm. i see. only one question. what"s the rule?

thanks.

Rejecting X, Edith was convinced (of/that/about) Y.

Idiom: Edith was convinced that <something was true/ should happen / should be>.
Eliminate A, C, and E.

B and D are pretty similar but have one major difference. There are two "things" discussed:
(1) SW education at university level
(2) students offered broad range of classes

Are these two things unrelated to one another but both things about which Edith was convinced? That is:
Edith was convinced that social work education should be in the university
and
Edith was convinced that students could be offered a broad range of courses dealing with social issues

If the above is what I'm trying to say, then I use the word "and" to separate the two things - I'm indicating that they are not necessarily interrelated themselves, but they are both related to the opening part of the sentence (Edith was convinced that...)

Sort of like:
I'm convinced that I should study harder for the GMAT and that I should learn to swim. Is that the kind of thing we're going for?

OR are these two things related to each other? I'm convinced that I should go to the YMCA more often, where I can learn to swim.

If this is what I'm trying to say, I don't want to use the word "and." I want to use some other structure to indicate that these two things are actually interrelated.

That's why D is better than B in this case - because the two things actually are interrelated. If SW education is in the university, then students can be offered a broad range of courses. (Note that the original sentence uses a set-up that also indicates this interrelationship: do the first thing so that the second thing can happen. They're making very clear that these two things are interrelated.)

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