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Although Napoleons army entered Russia with far more [#permalink]
 10 Sep 2005, 06:53
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Although Napoleon’s army entered Russia with far more supplies than they had in their previous campaigns, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.
(A) they had in their previous campaigns
(B) their previous campaigns had had
(C) they had for any previous campaign
(D) in their previous campaigns
(E) for any previous campaign
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E is the only possibility. The rest all have an improper plural pronoun "their" or "they" to describe the army, which is an "it".
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Can someone explain why C is not correct ?
I don't understand the || here.
To me, it is like:
Although Napoleon’s army entered Russia with far more supplies than (supplies) they had for any previous campaign, ...
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E shud be it.
All other answers have a plural 'their' improperly referring to the singular 'Army'.
OA/OE Plz
Krishna
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