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Although William Pereira first gained national recognition for his movie set designs, including those for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will remember him as the architect of the Transamerica Tower, the Malibu campus of Pepperdine University, and the city of Irvine.


A. including those for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will

D. including that for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will

Experts, I really became confused after looking at the explanations of this question. I remember that I have seen "that" and "those" referring to plural and singular antecedents respectively in the correct answer choices if the copies of the noun we want to compare are same but different in numbers.

In the given example if we associate a single set design for a single movie, whether the option D would be incorrect because of the use of "that" ?

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Hello abhishekmayank,

We hope this finds you well.

Having gone through the question and your query, we believe we can resolve your doubt.

In this case, it is more logical to use "those", as most movies have more than one set and thus, more than one set design is prepared for every film. The non-underlined part also refers to "movie set-designs" in the plural, so "those" is a clearer option.

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Although William Pereira first gained national recognition for his movie set designs, including those for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will remember him as the architect of the Transamerica Tower, the Malibu campus of Pepperdine University, and the city of Irvine.


A. including those for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will

D. including that for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will

Experts, I really became confused after looking at the explanations of this question. I remember that I have seen "that" and "those" referring to plural and singular antecedents respectively in the correct answer choices if the copies of the noun we want to compare are same but different in numbers.

In the given example if we associate a single set design for a single movie, whether the option D would be incorrect because of the use of "that" ?

AndrewN : Could you please shed light on it ?
Hello, abhishekmayank. It looks like ExpertsGlobal5 beat me to the response. I will add that whenever you see those or that in this sort of context, you want to look for the most logical antecedent you can find that matches in number: those with a plural noun, that with a singular noun. In the original sentence, those can only refer to designs, or, more fully, movie set designs, just as the Experts' Global team pointed out. So, you can reinterpret the original sentence in the following manner:

Although William Pereira first gained national recognition for his movie set designs, including the designs for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will remember him as the architect of the Transamerica Tower, the Malibu campus of Pepperdine University, and the city of Irvine.

If, in a similar manner, you replace that in (D) with recognition, since it cannot logically refer to Pereira himself, you get a sentence that does not express the vital meaning as clearly—recognition almost seems redundant:

Although William Pereira first gained national recognition for his movie set designs, including [national] recognition for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will remember him as the architect of the Transamerica Tower, the Malibu campus of Pepperdine University, and the city of Irvine.

If the modifier were meant to focus on the recognition Pereira received for his work in "Reap the Wild Wind," we would expect something more direct and less generic than that, something along the lines of, including an Academy Award for...

The goal in SC is not to chase could-be-true answers. The that in (D) is not grammatically incorrect. However, there is no way to debate the safer option present in the original sentence, in terms of meaning, and if I have doubts about anything in another contender, I listen to those doubts.

Thank you for thinking to ask me about the question. Good luck with your studies.

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GMATNinja egmat why E is not correct? We are the future generation of 1942.

Is this question correct?
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Although William Pereira first gained national recognition for his movie set designs, including those for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will remember him as the architect of the Transamerica Tower, the Malibu campus of Pepperdine University, and the city of Irvine.


A. including those for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will

B. like those for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations

C. like that for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will

D. including that for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations will

E. including those for the 1942 film “Reap the Wild Wind,” future generations



This question is testing Pronouns and Verbs.

(A) CORRECT. The original sentence is correct as written.

(B) The present tense remember is incorrectly used with the subject future generations. The original sentence was correct to use the future tense will remember.

(C) The antecedent of the pronoun that is the plural movie set designs, so the plural pronoun those should have been used.

(D) The antecedent of the pronoun that is the plural movie set designs, so the plural pronoun those should have been used.

(E) The present tense remember is incorrectly used with the subject future generations. The original sentence was correct to use the future tense will remember.
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