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The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   08 Jul 2015, 04:05
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The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when they began to claim turf to the north and south.


[*]had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when they began

[*]stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently when they began

[*]stayed within neighborhood boundaries until recently as they began

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The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   08 Jul 2015, 14:30
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I got it right but only on the indication that the Sidehackers is singular and need an "it". Hope my reasoning is right.
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The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   11 Jul 2015, 01:20
The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when it began to claim turf to the north and south.

The "notorious gang" is singular and requires "it" as the pronoun.
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The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   12 Jul 2015, 02:15
Although we can eliminate all the options on the basis of they v/s it, another rule might help eliminate B and C is: When there are two past actions in the statement, the action that took place first has to have the word "had".

Btw, my sentence above uses the idiomatic expression Although x,y. I am not too sure about the sentence structure though..pls help improvise
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Re: The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   12 Jul 2015, 10:36
SauravPathak27 wrote:
Although we can eliminate all the options on the basis of they v/s it, another rule might help eliminate B and C is: When there are two past actions in the statement, the action that took place first has to have the word "had".

Btw, my sentence above uses the idiomatic expression Although x,y. I am not too sure about the sentence structure though..pls help improvise


There are two steps for POE in this question:

First, the verb tense:
Watch the time clue "until recently"; Two events happened ( "...stayed within neighborhood boundaries..." and "...claim turf to the north and south...")
The event that happened first will have a perfect tense (had). Eliminate B and C

Second, the pronoun agreement:
Only "it" correctly refers to "the most notorious gang".
Eliminate A and D
The correct answer is E

Hop this helps!!
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Re: The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   26 Aug 2017, 10:14
Subanta wrote:
The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when they began to claim turf to the north and south.


[*]had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when they began

[*]stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently when they began

[*]stayed within neighborhood boundaries until recently as they began

[*]had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when they had begun

[*]had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when it began


gang is singular,,,sidehacckers

shud be E
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Re: The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   26 Aug 2017, 11:51
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SauravPathak27 wrote:
Although we can eliminate all the options on the basis of they v/s it, another rule might help eliminate B and C is: When there are two past actions in the statement, the action that took place first has to have the word "had".

Btw, my sentence above uses the idiomatic expression Although x,y. I am not too sure about the sentence structure though..pls help improvise


There are two steps for POE in this question:

First, the verb tense:
Watch the time clue "until recently"; Two events happened ( "...stayed within neighborhood boundaries..." and "...claim turf to the north and south...")
The event that happened first will have a perfect tense (had). Eliminate B and C

Second, the pronoun agreement:
Only "it" correctly refers to "the most notorious gang".
Eliminate A and D
The correct answer is E

Hop this helps!!



Since until recently, already gives idea about the timeline of the events, why do you we need to use past perfect tense separately for this?

daagh, can you help?
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Re: The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   29 Jun 2018, 00:50
A,B,C,D - "they" is referring to singular "gang"

Hence E, is the answer.
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Re: The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   29 Jun 2018, 20:08
untill recently/ or until a specific time in the past require simple past, not past perfect. this sentence is not good
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Re: The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   29 Jun 2018, 22:04
"gang" is a collective noun. "The gang are running across the street"
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The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   02 Jul 2018, 03:29
Though I chose E, I didn't understand the exact meaning. use of sidehackers ?
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Re: The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   19 Feb 2019, 10:44
The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when they began to claim turf to the north and south.


[*]had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when they began

[*]stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently when they began

[*]stayed within neighborhood boundaries until recently as they began

[*]had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when they had begun

[*]had stayed within neighborhood boundaries until fairly recently, when it began

Can SC questions be easier than this?

collective noun is singular so 'gang' is singular and all the 'they' pronoun to refer to gang are wrong, only option E is correct with it using 'it' to refer back to gang.
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Re: The most notorious gang in Venice, California, the Sidehackers, [#permalink] New post   28 Dec 2022, 14:14
E is the answer as gang is singular take it...
All of the rest are wrong

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