The much debated position on the acceleration of GDP

Sounds logical.. The "it" gives discrepancy as to whether the industrial revolution or the steam engine is progressing

I believe the error is in parallelism. Whenever the sentence uses the word "that", one should check if part before and after 'and' are parallel. D is incorrect mainly because first part, " began 300 years back with the invention of steam engine" is past tense and part after "and" - "it has been progressing" is present perfect progressive tense.

Stuck b/w option D & E.
Please Help!!

Thanks & Regards,
Anurag

No this is not the case. "It" here is fine! Discrepancy arises when the relative pronoun refers to two nouns in the sentence giving rise to two different meanings.
Here, it can not refer to steam engines as it will be illogical to say "engine" has been progressing since then. So, "it" only makes sense with Industrial Revolution per the given context.

So, imo too (D) looks like the right choice. We are still in the midst of Industrial Revolution, so present perfect continuous seems to me the correct verb tense choice here.

Hi,

In the question "The much debated position on the relationship between the GDP and the industrial revolution claims that the acceleration of the GDP that begun 300 years ago with the advent of the industrial revolution, and continued since then." suppose one encounters two option as below

A.that began 300 years ago with the advent of the industrial revolution and has

B. began 300 years ago with the advent of the industrial revolution and has

Which one of the two will be correct?

As per some explanation "The acceleration of GDP" will not be having any verb if "that" is present in the sentence as "That" will take both verbs "began" and "has continued" Option B is correct

Now since "that" is referring to noun phrase "acceleration of GDP " then why Option A, as given above may not be correct?

In many cases of Relative Pronoun modifier clauses "that" becomes the subject referring to the preceding noun entity and fulfils the SV Pair condition ,then why in those questions the "noun entity" and "that" is not viewed separately as seen in the above question?

Example: Retailers do not approve of the apps that allow shoppers to perform immediate price-comparison by scanning a product on the shelf.

In this sentence “that” refers to the preceding noun – apps - and the entire underlined clause modifies this noun – apps.
As you can see, “that” is the subject of the purple clause. Its verb is “allow”.

Then why the below statement cannot be correct?

The much debated position on the relationship between the GDP and the industrial revolution claims that the acceleration of the GDP that began 300 years ago with the advent of the industrial revolution and has continued since then

Please explain the above query?

Also if possible one module on "Demystifying the Usage of that" may be included in the course

Regards

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