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took me 40 wound down to two options between c and e choose c
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As its reputation for making acquisitions of important masterpieces has grown, the museum has increasingly turned down gifts of lesser-known paintings they would in the past have accepted gratefully.


(A) they would in the past have accepted gratefully

(B) they would have accepted gratefully in the past

(C) it would in the past have accepted gratefully

(D) it previously would have accepted gratefully in the past

(E) that previously would have been accepted in the past






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C

The pronoun they in this stem sentence doesn’t agree with the noun it refers to: the museum. In everyday speech, of course, we often say “they” when we are referring to a large institution—but on the GMAT, the test writers won’t let us get away with such imprecision. Choices A and B can both be eliminated because they use the plural pronoun. Choices D and E both fix the problem in different ways, but both add a redundancy: There is no need to have “previously” and “in the past” in the same sentence. The best answer is choice C.
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