In the small, closed Bedouin world, in which secrets are hard to keep

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

The original sentence contains pronoun agreement inconsistencies. Both uses of the plural “their” refer to the singular “carrier.” The pronouns must be changed to singular because of the presence of “her family” in the non-underlined section, since any nonunderlined portions of the sentence are correct.

(A) Incorrect, as it repeats the original sentence.

(B) CORRECT. The pronouns that refer to “carrier” are all singular -- each “their” is now “her.” These "her's" agree with the singular “carrier” as well as with the “her" in the non-underlined section at the end of the sentence.

(C) This choice corrects the pronoun agreement error. The pronouns that refer to “carrier” are all singular -- each “their” is now “her.” These "her's" agree with the singular “carrier” as well as with the “her" in the non-underlined section at the end of the sentence. However, “which” is incorrect; “which” relative clauses describe the noun immediately before them, but "which secrets are hard to keep" in this case logically should not be referring to "Bedouin world." In this sentence, "in which" would be correct usage.

(D) This choice corrects the pronoun agreement error. The pronouns that refer to “carrier” are all singular -- each “their” is now “her." These "her's" agree with the singular “carrier” as well as with the “her" in the non-underlined section at the end of the sentence. However, “families” does not agree with “family” in the non-underlined section, as it must.

(E) In this choice, “carriers” and each “their” agree, as they are all plural. However, the plural noun and pronouns do not agree with “her family” in the non-underlined section at the end of the sentence. Also, "which" is incorrect; "in which" would be correct.

I actually do not understand the meaning of the sentence...
Could somebody explain the meaning ?

I do not get who is "her"

Is it that when having a virus, which one can hardly hide, a person (female) infects the whole family, and because lowers the chances to get married ?

In the small, closed Bedouin world, in which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and their families, subsequently lowering their chances for marriage should word get out that a genetic disease runs in her family.

• in which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and their families, subsequently lowering their
Their is wrongly refering to carrier.

• in which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and her family,subsequently lowering her
Correct choice

• which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and her family, subsequently lowering her
',which' refer to the world and is wrong

• in which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and her families, subsequently lowering her
Families is wrong

• which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing carriers and their families, subsequently lowering their
',which' refer to the world and is wrong

https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/21/scie ... eople.html

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In the small, closed Bedouin world, in which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and their families, subsequently lowering their chances for marriage should word get out that a genetic disease runs in her family.


A. in which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and their families, subsequently lowering their

B. in which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and her family,subsequently lowering her

C. which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and her family, subsequently lowering her

D. in which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing a carrier and her families, subsequently lowering her

E. which secrets are hard to keep, there is the danger of stigmatizing carriers and their families, subsequently lowering their

No doubt , B is the best choice out of all. MartyTargetTestPrep , VeritasKarishma and GMATNinja However,

Can you shed some light , that V-ing modifier does not seem to make sense with the subject of the clause. Or am i missing something? .

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