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While depressed property values can hurt some large [#permalink]
 23 Aug 2006, 20:02
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While depressed property values can hurt some large investors, they are potentially devastating for home-owners, whose equity¡ªin many cases representing a life¡¯s savings¡ªcan plunge or even disappear.
(A) they are potentially devastating for homeowners, whose
(B) they can potentially devastate homeowners in that their
(C) for homeowners they are potentially devastating, because their
(D) for homeowners, it is potentially devastating in that their
(E) it can potentially devastate homeowners, whose
why is 'A' correct. can 'they' refer large inverstors ?
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final choice between A and C (B and D are awkward, E uses 'it' that is wrong)
will go with A here.
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Picking A.
Tough Choice between A and B.
A is more concise and clear by using "whose" although B seems more parallel.
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rktal,
'They' is referring back to the 'depressed property values'. Maybe if 'which' were placed after the comma, then the object of the sentence would be unclear as you say.
answer- A..
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Ruby wrote: rdw28
Why can't they refer to large investors?
A is correct.
Which one you think is || ?
While X can hurt Y, X are potentially devastating.........
While X can hurt Y, Y are potentially devastating.........
In the non-underlined part of the sentence we are saying property value are hurting investors then we must say the same for home owners and in the same way. In all the sentence is talking about the effects of depressed property values and not the effects of investors so "they" is clearly referring to "property values"
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thanks, Dahia !
that makes sense
but, I remember reading about the pronoun that the pronoun should refer back to the closest now. ?
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rkatl wrote: but, I remember reading about the pronoun that the pronoun should refer back to the closest now. ?
This is true for relative pronouns "who," "whom," "that," and "which" and not for other pronouns.
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awesome, thanks for clarifying, Dahia
i can't seem to find this rule. do you know of any site to read about this a bit more ?
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rkatl wrote: awesome, thanks for clarifying, Dahia
i can't seem to find this rule. do you know of any site to read about this a bit more ?
You may find these useful. These sites don't have a list of such rules but are a good reference source.
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/index2.htm
http://www.bartleby.com/64/
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ps_dahiya wrote: rkatl wrote: but, I remember reading about the pronoun that the pronoun should refer back to the closest now. ? This is true for relative pronouns "who," "whom," "that," and "which" and not for other pronouns. Thanks. This will clear up most of the problems I have with referents. On a side note, MGMAT states, as a rule of thumb, that a pronoun should have an unambiguous referent.
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Why is E wrong.
If "it" correctly refers (which it does as per me) back to "depressed property values".
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dips wrote: Why is E wrong.
If "it" correctly refers (which it does as per me) back to "depressed property values".
'can potentially' redundant.
A is less evil in these choices.
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dips wrote: Why is E wrong.
If "it" correctly refers (which it does as per me) back to "depressed property values".
depressed property values is plural. It is singular. We need they to refer to depressed property values
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B is wrong because their does not have a clear antecedent, their could be property values or their could mean investors
in A the pronoun they clearly refers to the property values
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Re: OG-sc:property values [#permalink]
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I was leaning towards C... but now I see why A is correct. :/ Tough one!
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