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NYT is one of the recommended sources by GCLUB experts to improve SC. But I have some doubts about grammatical constructions it uses. Dear experts, please clarify this situation, thanks.
From the same New York Times' article:
Gabriel’s family, (1)who live in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, (2)have private health insurance but rely on Medicaid to pay for treatments for Abby that her insurance doesn’t cover
(1) Relative pronoun "who" reffers to "famaly". Shouldn't it be correct to say The 's family "which"?
(2) In American English collective nouns (except police and a couple of other) are singular. Why plural here?
Another one from NYT:
The organization argued that Asian-American students were particularly victimized by race “quotas (1),” that were once used to exclude Jewish people.
(1) Why the COMMA precedes the restrictive clause with "that"?
From the same New York Times' article:
Gabriel’s family, (1)who live in rural southwestern Pennsylvania, (2)have private health insurance but rely on Medicaid to pay for treatments for Abby that her insurance doesn’t cover
(1) Relative pronoun "who" reffers to "famaly". Shouldn't it be correct to say The 's family "which"?
(2) In American English collective nouns (except police and a couple of other) are singular. Why plural here?
Another one from NYT:
The organization argued that Asian-American students were particularly victimized by race “quotas (1),” that were once used to exclude Jewish people.
(1) Why the COMMA precedes the restrictive clause with "that"?
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Hi Hero8888,
In the second sentence, as a non native speaker, I believe, you have identified the errors correctly.
Something what the GMAT doesn't prefer, isn't always wrong. For instance, usage of 'being' - Being is passive and makes the sentence wordy, it is not preferred on the GMAT but is absolutely fine. I think NYT can help you with correcting your idioms and maybe some other stuff, that i can't think of right now.
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As far as i remember from the magoosh lessons, i have seen only a couple of questions with that structure in the first sentence - preposition+[noun]+participle. I lookout for this structure when the preposition is WITH. I have never seen any Official GMAT question that doesn't start with 'WITH' + Noun + participle when one considers this structure.
Its best to wait for Experts.
In the meanwhile I would recommend that you visit the following links, if you haven't already done so.
preposition-noun-participle-163895.html
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2015/with-noun ... orrection/
Hope this Helps!
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