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11 May 2017, 08:29
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Technically speaking, "which" is also a type of pronoun, called a relative pronoun (as always, don't worry about the jargon unless you like it). You'll often see me refer to "which" as "the beginning of a modifier" or "part of a modifier" because that's a simpler way to think about it -- but technically, I'm wrong. And I think your description is nicely intuitive: "which" is "not use of a pronoun, but it is very similar." I think that's a good way of thinking of it here, but really, it's just a pronoun, and it needs an antecedent like any other.
So the problem in (A) is that if you look at it strictly and literally, "which" would seem to refer to the most recent noun: "animals." The correct answer fixes that issue nicely.
And it pains me to say this, but you really don't want to worry much about "awkwardness" on GMAT SC. I know: the answer explanations in the OG use the terms "awkward" and "wordy" all the time. But "awkward" is completely in the eye of the beholder, and I'd argue that a huge chunk of the CORRECT answers are awkward and wordy. The pronoun issue (or any other grammar rule) definitely trumps any subjective feeling that something is "awkward."
05 Jun 2017, 05:08
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Hi,
As per e-gmat, for pronoun ambiguity : we need to put back the valid nouns and see if more than one noun can fit in the sentence
Here 'which' can refer to 'animals' indeed but then the meaning is distorted, so we cant consider this this. Now which can only refer to colonies and then it is correct so I feel A is correct.
Pls guide.
As per e-gmat, for pronoun ambiguity : we need to put back the valid nouns and see if more than one noun can fit in the sentence
Here 'which' can refer to 'animals' indeed but then the meaning is distorted, so we cant consider this this. Now which can only refer to colonies and then it is correct so I feel A is correct.
Pls guide.
05 Jun 2017, 08:04
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akhisysnl
Hello akhisysnl,
Thank you for your query.
You are correct in saying that we do suggest that replace the pronoun with all he nouns that you may deem a logical antecedent of that pronoun. Only the logical noun will be the antecedent of that pronoun.
In this official sentence, as you have correctly mentioned, which has only one logical antecedent - colonies.
However, we also say that GMAT seems to prefer the answer choice that mentions the noun entity exclusively rather than the pronoun used for that noun entity.
In Choice C, the noun entity colony is specifically mentioned and hence leave no doubt for any pronoun ambiguity whatsoever. Hence, this choice is definitely better than Choice A.
There are many official sentences in which we see that the correct answer choice carries the noun entity explicitly.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha
