2012-03-13 09:00:20

Recent researchers have contended that the Depression

brought families closer together, and they cite a declining

                                     (A)

divorce rate in the 1930s; however, many historians have

                             (B)

criticized the researchers for being naive and 

forgetting to include the high rate of desertion in their articles.

   (C)                                                 (D)

No error 

 (E)

The correct answer is E

Explanation: The sentence is correct as written.

There is no error at (A), since “and” is the proper conjunciton to use for linking the two related clauses, and the pronoun “they” agrees in number with its antecedent, “researchers.”

There is no error at (B), since “however” is the proper transition word to use for introducing the final clause of the sentence, since the final clause provides contradictory information from what is provided before the semicolon.

There is no error at (C), since the preposition “to” agrees idiomatically and logically with its verb, “forgetting.”

Finally, there is no error at (D), since “their articles” must refer to those written by “researchers,” and since there are plural researchers, there must likewise be plural articles possessed by a plural pronoun.

As there is no error in the sentence, choice E is correct.