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I like (E)

'He' means the author Guy de Maupassant.

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...because he slowly revealed a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece, demonstrating his famed and masterful use of irony.
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'He' means the author Guy de Maupassant.

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...because he slowly revealed a tragic twist of fate at the end of each piece, demonstrating his famed and masterful use of irony.


GMAT frowns on sentences that use a pronoun to refer to a noun contained in the genitive.

Example:

Lisa's car needs to be serviced because she was involved in a minor accident. :(

Because Lisa was..., her car.... :)
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A/C has modifier issues.
B/E has bad use of pronoun ‘he’. It has no referent.

Left with D.
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OA is D.



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