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Striking Nurses [#permalink] New post 17 Dec 2006, 23:11
The nurses went on strike to protest their being overworked.
a...
b. themselves being overworked
c. themselves as overworked
d. their overworking
e. overworking themselves
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 [#permalink] New post 17 Dec 2006, 23:11
and why
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 [#permalink] New post 17 Dec 2006, 23:15
I am for D...

protest their overworking ...

looks right..

something like "i protest my exploitation"...

u need a noun here... i think overworking is doing the same...
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 [#permalink] New post 18 Dec 2006, 00:20
I will take A.

The nurses are protesting against someone else's action. D seems to imply that the nurses are protesting against themselves.

I think passive voice is required in this case.
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 [#permalink] New post 18 Dec 2006, 12:27
ncprasad wrote:
I will take A.

The nurses are protesting against someone else's action. D seems to imply that the nurses are protesting against themselves.

I think passive voice is required in this case.


could you ellaborate more on this? WHy not B?
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 [#permalink] New post 18 Dec 2006, 12:35
I am with D...
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 [#permalink] New post 18 Dec 2006, 18:18
A. We need to show that the nurses are protesting an action performed by someone else.


Quote:
The nurses went on strike to protest their being overworked.
a...
b. themselves being overworked
c. themselves as overworked
d. their overworking
e. overworking themselves


B/C-"Themselves" is the reflexive form of "they", "Their" is the possessive form of they. We need the possessive to attribute "being overworked" back to the nurses.

E makes it sound as though the nurses overworked themselves
D does not convey the action properly
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 [#permalink] New post 18 Dec 2006, 19:40
D for me
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 [#permalink] New post 18 Dec 2006, 20:06
I think it should be B as the pronoun themselves is correctly placed in the object of the sentence.
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Re: Striking Nurses [#permalink] New post 18 Dec 2006, 22:05
I think A is the correct answer



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The nurses went on strike to protest their being overworked.
a...
b. themselves being overworked
c. themselves as overworked
d. their overworking
e. overworking themselves
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 [#permalink] New post 19 Dec 2006, 19:30
I went for D but this was discussed before ..
the OA is A.
Here it is:
http://www.gmatclub.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=38837
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