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27 Jul 2019, 05:06
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Vishnu
Just because the word 'if' is there, one cannot apply the tenets of conditional clauses automatically. The conditional clause rule applies only to a conditional clause that comprises conditional markers such as 'if' and more importantly a subject and a verb to make it a clause. For instance,
1. If they are recognized and applied, X will happen.
Here the first part is the conditional clause and the part after comma is the main clause. Now we can know what the tense of the clause is. This is conditional 1 structure.
On the contrary,
2. If recognized and applied, X will happen -- Here we do not have a conditional clause at the start. We have only a modifier phrase comprising a couple of past participles and the participles are only verbals with no indication of tense of their own.
For example, we can say as below and all of them are correct, as there is an identifiable conditional clause in each of them.
1. If they had been recognized and applied, X would have happened.
2. If they were recognized and applied, X would happen
3. If they are recognized and applied, X will happen
4. As such, " If recognized and applied' cannot be subjected to conditional clause rules.
Therefore, as you have rightly pointed out, one must rather go through the modifier split in this case.
Hope You see my point.
Just because the word 'if' is there, one cannot apply the tenets of conditional clauses automatically. The conditional clause rule applies only to a conditional clause that comprises conditional markers such as 'if' and more importantly a subject and a verb to make it a clause. For instance,
1. If they are recognized and applied, X will happen.
Here the first part is the conditional clause and the part after comma is the main clause. Now we can know what the tense of the clause is. This is conditional 1 structure.
On the contrary,
2. If recognized and applied, X will happen -- Here we do not have a conditional clause at the start. We have only a modifier phrase comprising a couple of past participles and the participles are only verbals with no indication of tense of their own.
For example, we can say as below and all of them are correct, as there is an identifiable conditional clause in each of them.
1. If they had been recognized and applied, X would have happened.
2. If they were recognized and applied, X would happen
3. If they are recognized and applied, X will happen
4. As such, " If recognized and applied' cannot be subjected to conditional clause rules.
Therefore, as you have rightly pointed out, one must rather go through the modifier split in this case.
Hope You see my point.
20 Aug 2019, 23:28
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GMATNinja
HI GMAT NINJA,
In option E, they refers to students but my doubt is will it refer to skills.
Since they refers to plural pronoun so there is a chance to refer skills also.
can you help me on this when and how to avoid such ambiguity cases. Because of this ambiguity i have opted for option D.
31 Aug 2019, 20:06
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Sandeep2212
As discussed in this video, pronoun ambiguity isn't an absolute rule on the GMAT.
As stated in this post, if the ONLY difference between two answer choices is that one has an ambiguous pronoun and the other does not, then you'd obviously prefer the answer choice without pronoun ambiguity. But in plenty of official questions, the correct answer might technically have some pronoun ambiguity -- it's just that the other answer choices would have WORSE errors in that scenario.
In choice (E), we technically have two possible antecedents:
- "if students recognize and apply these skills, the skills will become more effective thinkers." - This doesn't make any sense. "Skills" themselves cannot think or become more effective thinkers.
- "if students recognize and apply these skills, the students will become more effective thinkers." - This makes perfect sense! "Students" themselves can certainly think and become more effective thinkers.
Is there some pronoun ambiguity? Sure... but given the context, the intended meaning is perfectly clear.
Meanwhile, choice (D) has the meaning issues discussed in this post, and those issues are much worse than some not-so-ambiguous pronoun ambiguity.
I hope this helps!
