abhishekmayank
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.
- Andrew