All of the tenants except Mr. Baumgardner and she intends on

All of the tenants except Mr. Baumgardner and she intends on installing deadbolts.

her intend to install

she intend to install

Thanks for giving your opinion , i shall be thankful if you clarify the doubt against two answer choices given above.

My understanding is :

subject of above sentence is ( all except mr.xyz and she ) so why should we use her in place of she ? whom does her refer to ? , we don't have any antecedent

Pls clarify, thanks

We have to have she here because we need a subject pronoun and not an object pronoun such as her. Hence she intend is right while her intend is wrong. You are right in your observation that her has no antecedent. (For that matter even she has no antecedent)

IMO
Here - the sentence has a complex subject. Who is performing the action? - Who intend/intends on installing deadbolts ? - We can figure out the subject is All of the tenants and not including Mr. Baumgardner and she.

That is the reason to pull out Mr. Baumgardner and she - to Objective form and notating as Mr. Baumgardner and her intend to install deadbolts.

Very nicely explained but then why do you think E is wrong?

But Whats the answer to this Q..

Will go with D..................!!!!!!

Nice question. Thanks for the explanation.

Here Subject All OF the tenants is in objective case so clause after and should also have subject in objective case for parallelism

D

still confused with the correct answer. OA looking awkward.

Good question. You can't really make out the intention of the speaker from the original sentence. When we read the options we can make out that the intention is to suggest that everyone except Mrs X and her (mrs Y) intend to install deadbolts. the "and" makes it a plural subject necessitating a verb in plural form ie (intend instead of intends) and the correct idiom is "intend to" leading us to option D, which I believe to be correct.

I would Also go with D,

Look at it this way....

All the people including HE/HIM are coming to the party.
All the people except He/Him are coming to the party.

In first one Him is correct , so is Him in second also. in both the sentence Him is the object and not the subject of the sentence.

I also go with E. I think that you really need that she before that verb otherwise it wouldn`t be a Clear reference.

Could somebody please give the OA?

rodbarre

The concept of object/subject pronouns can be very tricky at times. However if we remember that there are 3 types of objects, direct object, indirect object and object of preposition, then the complications can sometimes be handled effectively.

Here except is a preposition and Mr. Baumgardner and the lady ( whoever she is) are the objects of the preposition except. Hence to refer to the lady, we should use the object form, i.e. her.

All the tenants (subject) except Mr. Baumgardner and her (objects of preposition) intend (verb of the subject, not of the objects of preposition) to install.

D is correct.

The above confusion may arise when using comparison than. Depending on the meaning, both the subject and the object forms can be used alongwith the comparison than .

I love chocolate more than she (does)... subject pronoun.
I love chocolate more than her......object pronoun.

But when used with prepositions, the object form is almost always correct.

Anyone please summarize this point--- if preposition is used before verb than "object form " should be used else if not preposition than "subject form" would be used (if noun is before verb).

and in every case if noun is used after "verb" than always "object form" will be used.

Please confirm the same/.

Here I am going with option D.
As per rules, after preposition an object form of pronoun is must.
So option A & E eliminated. Now as per Subject-Verb agreement also B & C is eliminated. So option D is my choice.

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