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Hi egmat
I have two questions regarding your explanation above:
[1] Can we say that there is pronoun reference ambiguity in option C/D -- "it" may also refer to ship or deck? Because the comparison would then be (keeping ellipsis error aside)
Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same
- to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water
as ship (or deck) would appear
- to a person standing on land.
We will wait for egmat response, for now i will put forward my understanding: Portion after AS is a clause "As it would appear to a person standing on land", In such cases IC+IC or IC+DC, subject pronoun refers to subject of previous clause, here in this case IT shall refer to phenomena(Plural).
[2] Do option C/D also have error w.r.t. ellipsis --- since my understanding is that we need to repeat the exact set of words that are dropped (as part of ellipsis) and option D/E fail to do so.[/quote]
In option D, i don't think there is any problem w.r.t ellipsis, "water, as it would appear to the", appear word is there in 1st clause.
However, I think we cannot use/take advantage of ellipsis in Option-C, as clause after semicolon should be full clause. I will request other experts to clarify this.
I have two questions regarding your explanation above:
[1] Can we say that there is pronoun reference ambiguity in option C/D -- "it" may also refer to ship or deck? Because the comparison would then be (keeping ellipsis error aside)
Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same
- to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water
as ship (or deck) would appear
- to a person standing on land.
We will wait for egmat response, for now i will put forward my understanding: Portion after AS is a clause "As it would appear to a person standing on land", In such cases IC+IC or IC+DC, subject pronoun refers to subject of previous clause, here in this case IT shall refer to phenomena(Plural).
[2] Do option C/D also have error w.r.t. ellipsis --- since my understanding is that we need to repeat the exact set of words that are dropped (as part of ellipsis) and option D/E fail to do so.[/quote]
In option D, i don't think there is any problem w.r.t ellipsis, "water, as it would appear to the", appear word is there in 1st clause.
However, I think we cannot use/take advantage of ellipsis in Option-C, as clause after semicolon should be full clause. I will request other experts to clarify this.
19 Dec 2020, 08:19
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Hi experts,
I know that option D is incorrect because 'it' is used for plural 'phenomena'.
But if this were the case -
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- Then would options D and B have been equally correct? Basically what I am trying to understand is - DO WE NEED TO OMIT 'as they would' - elipsis - in such structures? And how do we decide when and what to omit; and when and what not to?
Please help.
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Request Expert Reply:
Hi honorable experts,
MartyTargetTestPrep, GMATNinja, GMATGuruNY, AjiteshArun, VeritasPrepHailey, BrightOutlookJenn,
I've two queries in this question.
Q1:
Is there any ellipsis word like 'appear' after the word 'would' both in choice C and D?
Q2:
People says that 'it' refers back to 'phenomena' in choice C and D logically. But as 'it' is singular and 'phenomena' is plural they don't match. My question is: how do people know that 'phenomena' is plural? So far I know that GMAC keeps a hint to understand either the pronoun is singular or plural. Unfortunately, I did not get any hints for this question
. Can you share your thought, please?
Thanks in advanced..
