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Accredited travel agents  were not required to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they were organizing travel packages, but many do so  anyway in an attempt to secure repeat business.

A. were not required to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they were organizing travel packages, but many do so

B. are not required to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they organize travel packages, but many do so

C. were not required for providing hotel and entertainment advice when they organized travel packages, but many do it

D. were not required that they provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they organized travel packages, but many had been doing so

E. had not had the requirement for them to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they organize travel packages, but many do it

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Jainam24 · Answer

OA: B 
A: 
i) Grammatically fine but meaning wise incorrect since it doesn't capture the tendency of accredited travel agents to secure repeat business. 
ii) Tense mismatch: They do so is incorrect it should be they did so

C: 
i) Same as A i) 
ii) for providing is idiomatically incorrect 
iii) it usage for the act of providing advice is incorrect

D: 
i) Same as A i) 
ii) Use of subjunctive distorts meaning 
iii) The usage of had implies that first they used to provide advice then they were not really required to provide the advice. This is not the case and thus blatant meaning distortion

E) 
i) Same as A i)
ii) Had not had implies that they first weren't required to provide advice but then they provided advice for repeat business. Also past perfect tense is used to denote an event in past before another even in past but in this option there aren't 2 events in past. 
iii) Tense mismatch: Both past perfect & simple present tense in one sentence is incorrect usage 
iv) Same as C iii)

sanjitscorps18 · Answer

A. were not required to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they were organizing travel packages, but many do so
--> The sentence refers to something that happens but "were" in the beginning leads to the past tense, a completed action

B. are not required to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they organize travel packages, but many do so
--> Correct

C. were not required for providing hotel and entertainment advice when they organized travel packages, but many do it
--> The sentence refers to something that happens but "were" in the beginning leads to the past tense, a completed action. "do it" is incorrect as it would not refer to an action.

D. were not required that they provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they organized travel packages, but many had been doing so
--> Isn't particularly incorrect. But the original sentence refers to a present context and we have an answer that conforms to that.

E. had not had the requirement for them to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they organize travel packages, but many do it
--> "had not had" is an awkward construction. The sentence starts with past perfect and goes on to the present. Faulty construction.

Option B

zhanbo · Answer

My answer is  (B) . It took me 01:12.

(A) The inconsistent use of verb tense ("were not" vs. "do so") cannot be justified. Use present tense or past tense in both places.

(B) "are not" and "do so" are consistent.

(C) See (A). In addition, "do it" is incorrect because there is no antecedent for "it".

(D) Past perfect tense of "had been doing so" is illogical.

(E) Past perfect tense of "had not had" is incorrect when there was no simple past tense somewhere others.

Magni03 · Answer

hi, wouldnt in option b - They can refer to hotels or agents ? how is it right in this case ?

DmitryFarber · Answer

Magni03

It is very normal for sentences using "they" to have multiple plural nouns in them. That's only a concern if there is a true ambiguity of meaning. That's not the case here. First, hotels cannot provide advice. Second, the sentence is in the middle of talking about what travel agents do, so we should assume that "they" refers to travel agents.

wadhwakaran · Answer

A. were not required to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they were organizing travel packages, but many do so  Incorrect because of tense issue.

B. are not required to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they organize travel packages, but many do so  Correct

C. were not required for providing hotel and entertainment advice when they organized travel packages, but many do it  Incorrect because of use of it. 
D. were not required that they provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they organized travel packages, but many had been doing so  Incorrect use of Past Perfect tense

E. had not had the requirement for them to provide advice pertaining to hotels and entertainment when they organize travel packages, but many do it Incorrect because of use of it.

ExpertsGlobal5 · Answer

Hello  Magni03 ,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, pronoun ambiguity does not apply if there is only one noun that the pronoun in question can logically refer to.

To understand the concept of "Exceptions to Pronoun Ambiguity" on GMAT, you may want to watch the following video (~2 minutes):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkYO2EmB7Vo

All the best!
Experts' Global Team

RonTargetTestPrep · Answer

The GMAT exam    does not test pronoun ambiguity   .

Incorrectly used pronouns on the GMAT will actually be   incorrect  . 
Either 
/1/ the intended referent of such a pronoun will appear in a grammatical form that's incompatible with the pronoun (= the wrong one of singular/plural, or not a noun at all)—
or else 
/2/ there just won't be a sensible referent at all (as in the case of unnecessary pronouns that are added to some versions of a sentence that works perfectly well without a pronoun).

There are other U.S. standardized tests that  have , historically, tested pronoun ambiguity. Most notably, the SAT (given to high-school students for use in undergraduate university admissions) tested this concept quite heavily for several years.
Insofar as you may see references to pronoun ambiguity in American test-prep materials, those parts were almost certainly originally motivated by those other exams; occasionally, certain topics have been observed to 'bleed together' in the publications of test-prep companies that publish materials for multiple different exams.

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