Answer:
Hun, you'll need to put the sentences up so we can know which to choose from.
Explanation:
Simply participating in the discourse community does not mean one is assimilated with it. ... A person can participate in many communities without wanting to formally tie themselves to it. 5. Consider a discourse community you belong to, and describe how it meets the six characteristics of a discourse community.
I believe you have a typo when it comes to the first option - it should be athletics, not athletic. The word athletic is an adjective, and the word athletics is a noun.
That being said, the correct answer is A. athletics. Even though this noun ends in -s, it is still singular. The rest of the options are all plural nouns.