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13 Feb 2017, 16:39
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the problem is not properly transcribed -
"and more firmly established than they may actually be." - change "that" to "than".
Option B - "to make their companies seem larger" - change "large" to "larger".
let us look at the answer options -
A - Incorrect.
"their company" is incorrect. look at the non-underlined portion - "more firmly established than they may actually be."
Also, we cannot say "large than". We need to use "larger".
B - Correct.
"ways to make their companies" - "to" correctly specifies a goal/purpose.
C - Incorrect.
"new entrepreneurs may need to find resourceful ways, thus making their companies seem larger"
Here the comma + ing modifier seems to indicate an effect of the previous clause. "making their companies seem larger" does not make sense as the effect of "may need to find resourceful ways".
D - Incorrect.
"the companies" does not make it clear that we are referring to the companies founded by those entrepreneurs.
"so that" does not make much sense here -
"need to find resourceful ways, so that the companies seem larger" - this suggests that only the fact that entrepreneurs need to find resourceful ways is sufficient.
It does not answer the question "What kind of ways?". Option B, on the other hand, makes this clear - "ways to make the company seem larger".
E - Incorrect.
"their company" and "large" are both incorrect.
"and more firmly established than they may actually be." - change "that" to "than".
Option B - "to make their companies seem larger" - change "large" to "larger".
let us look at the answer options -
A - Incorrect.
"their company" is incorrect. look at the non-underlined portion - "more firmly established than they may actually be."
Also, we cannot say "large than". We need to use "larger".
B - Correct.
"ways to make their companies" - "to" correctly specifies a goal/purpose.
C - Incorrect.
"new entrepreneurs may need to find resourceful ways, thus making their companies seem larger"
Here the comma + ing modifier seems to indicate an effect of the previous clause. "making their companies seem larger" does not make sense as the effect of "may need to find resourceful ways".
D - Incorrect.
"the companies" does not make it clear that we are referring to the companies founded by those entrepreneurs.
"so that" does not make much sense here -
"need to find resourceful ways, so that the companies seem larger" - this suggests that only the fact that entrepreneurs need to find resourceful ways is sufficient.
It does not answer the question "What kind of ways?". Option B, on the other hand, makes this clear - "ways to make the company seem larger".
E - Incorrect.
"their company" and "large" are both incorrect.
14 Feb 2017, 02:20
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This topic is said to be from Official Guide. Then it is interesting to note that the comparison marker' like' is used to denote examples in the non-underlined portion.
02 Jun 2017, 09:56
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AR15J
Hello AR15J and RMD007,
1. Many of our students also raise the same question as to how same pronoun can be used to refer to two different noun antecedents. We at e-GMAT do not subscribe to any such rule. We apply and encourage our students also to apply meaning-based approach rather than rule-oriented approach.
The context of the sentence makes it absolutely clear that pronoun their correctly refers to entrepreneurs and pronoun they correctly refers to companies. The companies belong to the entrepreneurs, and the companies should seem larger than they may actually be. There is no other meaning possible.
Takeaway: As long as they refer to their logical antecedents without any ambiguity whatsoever, same pronouns can be used to refer to different noun entities.
2. It seems that the GMAC has altered its stance on the usage of like. The thing to bear in mind is that if an answer choice uses like to present examples and not comparison, we cannot reject that choice only because it does not present comparison. We will have to look for a deterministic error to reject that choice.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha
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