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In option E “it’s victims unless ‘they’ receive an antidote”. Isn’t “they” ambiguous? They= fly or they= victims?

Even though D have more words in it this ambiguity is cleared!!

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Here THEY refers to the victims (PLURAL)
But the FLY is singular and thus THEY cannot refer to it and as a result their is no ambiguity in option E
Option D will not be chosen due to redudancy
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In option E "they receive an antidote" seems to be passive voice, because of which i selected D
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In option E "they receive an antidote" seems to be passive voice, because of which i selected D
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Oh, it's the other way round Ridhi! Option D uses passive voice.

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why is D wrong in this question ?
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Hi Aarushi, the only difference is passive (option D) and active (option E), though I don't recollect such things getting so explicitly tested in official questions.
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