Question

what change, if any, is necessary in the underlined portion in the following passage?

at the clinic, real professionals who helped you to perfect your game.

• if i attended the clinic, real professionals would help me perfect my game.
• at the clinic, there would have been real professionals who help you to perfect your game.
• at the clinic, there were real professionals who were helping you to perfect your game.
• correct as is

Explanation:

The original sentence is a fragment (lacks a main verb for the subject "real professionals" in the context of a complete sentence structure). Let's analyze each option:

• Option 1: "If I attended the clinic, real professionals would help me perfect my game." This is a complete conditional sentence with proper subject - verb agreement and structure. The original sentence has issues with structure (it's a fragment), and this option corrects it by creating a proper conditional statement.
• Option 2: "At the clinic, there would have been real professionals who help you to perfect your game." The tense usage here is inconsistent ("would have been" and "help" don't match well in context, and the structure is also less clear compared to option 1).
• Option 3: "At the clinic, there were real professionals who were helping you to perfect your game." While it's a complete sentence, the original context seems more like a hypothetical situation (implied by the need for a correction that makes sense in terms of a proper sentence structure, and option 1's conditional is more appropriate if the original was intended to be a hypothetical about attending the clinic).
• Option 4: "correct as is" is wrong because the original is a sentence fragment.

Answer:

A. If I attended the clinic, real professionals would help me perfect my game.