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GMATNinja, can you please help with the explanation?
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E-GMAT and GMAT NINJA I am begging you to tell me the difference between B and E. They use the same pronouns and convey the same meaning. I am confused
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First off, E is wrong because that's just not English word order. We only say things like "never would this happen" in poetry.
As for the pronoun issue, we can't just say B and E are the same because they have the same pronouns. We need to have clarity in how those pronouns are used! By the time "it" appears at the end of the sentence, we have seen several different nouns that "it" could refer to. For instance, if we read E as a stand-alone sentence without the context of the non-underlined part, we'd read "it" as "grip." This is like "You can't win the contest if you don't enter it." Sure, "holding a grip" might seem a bit redundant. But what about "Algeria"? The point is that the intended meaning of "it" is not clear. We can fix this by using "it" before we start introducing other singular nouns. Although it's rare to see pronoun ambiguity show up as the reason for a wrong answer, often, the GMAT will switch away from pronouns once enough potentially confusing nouns have been introduced. For instance, look at how the correct answer to this one ends. We'd probably understand just fine if that last noun were replaced with "it," but the answer doesn't take any chances: https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-only-way ... ml#p645597
First off, E is wrong because that's just not English word order. We only say things like "never would this happen" in poetry.
As for the pronoun issue, we can't just say B and E are the same because they have the same pronouns. We need to have clarity in how those pronouns are used! By the time "it" appears at the end of the sentence, we have seen several different nouns that "it" could refer to. For instance, if we read E as a stand-alone sentence without the context of the non-underlined part, we'd read "it" as "grip." This is like "You can't win the contest if you don't enter it." Sure, "holding a grip" might seem a bit redundant. But what about "Algeria"? The point is that the intended meaning of "it" is not clear. We can fix this by using "it" before we start introducing other singular nouns. Although it's rare to see pronoun ambiguity show up as the reason for a wrong answer, often, the GMAT will switch away from pronouns once enough potentially confusing nouns have been introduced. For instance, look at how the correct answer to this one ends. We'd probably understand just fine if that last noun were replaced with "it," but the answer doesn't take any chances: https://gmatclub.com/forum/the-only-way ... ml#p645597
