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Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   17 May 2005, 21:43
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Never before had the e-business industry faced as many financial losses and employee cutbacks as they had in the late 1990s.
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B) had to face as many financial losses and employee cutbacks as they have to
C) faced the financial losses and employee cutbacks that they had faced
D) had to face as many financial losses and employee cutbacks as
E) faced as many financial losses and employee cutbacks as they faced



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Re: Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   17 May 2005, 21:59
D seems correct. rest of the options have they, which has no referent.
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Re: Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   18 May 2005, 00:44
Answer is D, which does not have the word "they".

It is unclear what is "they" referring to in other options as e-commerce industry is not a plural but a singular representation for the group of all e-commerce industries.

Example :- Gang of robbers
Here, Gand is singular, while robbers are plural.
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Re: Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   18 May 2005, 05:00
E it is...


past perfect ->past

the stem says....never before....which sould be in past perfect cos the latter half is being compared with the late 1990's which should be simple past
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Re: Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   18 May 2005, 06:46
D gets rid of "they". who are they? should at least be "it", if it refers to the industry
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Re: Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   22 May 2005, 13:25
Pick D.Who is they?All the answers except for D contain "they".
D doesn't seem correct either because of improper use of "as"
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Re: Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   22 May 2005, 13:50
OA is E
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Re: Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   22 May 2005, 14:11
IMO it cannot be D) because "as" introduces a clause that needs a subject and a verb. so D) is definitely out.
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Re: Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   22 May 2005, 15:18
Vithal,can you explain the use of "they" in E?
I still can't get it.
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Re: Never before had the e-business industry faced as many [#permalink] New post   22 May 2005, 17:29
Fuqua wrote:
Vithal,can you explain the use of "they" in E?
I still can't get it.


that was where I fell into the trap too. I guess use of they is valid here. They refers to the only noun in the sentence (e-business Industry), so from a pronoun reference perspective there are no issues.
Also, e-business Industry can be considered as plural to mean all the industries doing e-business.



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