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Re: Next month, state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the [#permalink] New post   28 Aug 2022, 17:30
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​​Next month, state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the job of increasing the wolf population in the federally designated recovery area, the number of which will however ultimately be dictated by the number of prey in the area.

(A) area, the number of which will however
“Which” refers to the wolf population. But you cannot have the number of wolf population. It is either the number of wolves or the size of the wolf population. Eliminate.

(B) area; the size of the population, however, will
A semicolon is used to connect two independent clauses. The error in A has been corrected in option B.

(C) area, however the number of wolves will
The number of wolves is correct. However, we cannot use a comma to connect two independent clauses. “However” cannot be used as a conjunction to connect two independent clauses. Eliminate.

I was tired, however, I could not sleep- Incorrect.
I was tired. However, I could not sleep- correct.
I was tired; however, I could not sleep- correct.
I was tired but I could not sleep- correct. “But” is a conjunction and hence can be used as a connector.

(D) area; the number of which will, however,
Same as A. Eliminate.

(E) area, when the size of the population will, however,
“When” is incorrect as there is no reference to time. Eliminate.


Thank you for this helpful explanation. This may be a minor typo, but don't you need a comma before "but" in your example because two independent clauses joined by a FANBOY requires a comma?
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Re: Next month, state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2023, 20:53
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Next month, state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the job of increasing the wolf population in the federally designated recovery area, the number of which will however ultimately be dictated by the number of prey in the area.

(A) area, the number of which will however
(B) area; the size of the population, however, will
(C) area, however the number of wolves will
(D) area; the number of which will, however,
(E) area, when the size of the population will, however,



Hi Experts GMATNinja KarishmaB egmat mgmat Bunuel AbdurRakib sayantanc2k

I want to know if we have other reasons to eliminate option (C). I get it that we should have used ";" to separate the 2 independent clauses....But can be also eliminate it on the basis that it doesn't represent "contract" as per the usage of however. I am really curious to know the answer.

Maybe the correct version could be

Next month, though state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the job of increasing the wolf population in the federally designated recovery area, however the number of wolves will ultimately be dictated by the number of prey in the area.

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AbdurRakib wrote:
Next month, state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the job of increasing the wolf population in the federally designated recovery area, the number of which will however ultimately be dictated by the number of prey in the area.

(A) area, the number of which will however
(B) area; the size of the population, however, will
(C) area, however the number of wolves will
(D) area; the number of which will, however,
(E) area, when the size of the population will, however,



Hi Experts GMATNinja KarishmaB egmat mgmat Bunuel AbdurRakib sayantanc2k

I want to know if we have other reasons to eliminate option (C). I get it that we should have used ";" to separate the 2 independent clauses....But can be also eliminate it on the basis that it doesn't represent "contract" as per the usage of however. I am really curious to know the answer.

Maybe the correct version could be

Next month, though state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the job of increasing the wolf population in the federally designated recovery area, however the number of wolves will ultimately be dictated by the number of prey in the area.

Thanks.


'However' is a conjunctive adverb. We cannot use a conjunctive adverb alone or with a comma to join two independent clauses. Two independent clauses (the way we have here) can be joined either using a semi colon or using 'a comma + co-ordinating conjunction.'
Hence the sentence you suggested is not correct. Also, we should not use both 'though' and 'however' to show contrast. We need to use only one of them.

We can correct it in the following ways:

Next month, state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the job of increasing the wolf population in the federally designated recovery [u]area; however, the number of wolves will ultimately be dictated by the number of prey in the area.

or

Though state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the job of increasing the wolf population in the federally designated recovery area next month, the number of wolves will ultimately be dictated by the number of prey in the area.
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Next month, state wildlife officials are scheduled to take over the [#permalink] New post   18 Feb 2023, 08:12
Sentence Analysis-

  • Next month, (Modifies the main verb – states the time of the action)
  • state wildlife officials are scheduled (Main Subject: Officials; Main Verb: are scheduled)
    ---- to take over the job of increasing the wolf population (Infinitive phrase modifying the main verb)
    ----- in the federally designated recovery area, (Prepositional phrase modifying ‘increasing’)
    ------ the number of which will however ultimately be dictated by the number of prey in the area. (Dependent clause modifying ‘area’ – Subject: the number of which; Verb: will be dictated)

The sentence says that some officials are scheduled to take over the job of increasing wolf population in some area. However, the size of the population will ultimately be decided by the number of prey in the area.

The sentence has the following problems:

1. ‘which’ currently refers to ‘area’, producing an ungrammatical construction and illogical meaning that the number of area will be dictated by the number of prey. Even if we go back in the sentence to find an antecedent for ‘which’, we’ll find none. Neither wolf nor population can be the antecedent of ‘which’ since neither ‘the number of wolf’ nor ‘the number of population’ is correct.

2. Even if we replace ‘which’ with ‘wolves’ to say ‘the number of wolves’, the shift from talking about ‘wolf population’ to talking about ‘the number of wolves’ doesn’t seem appropriate.

Option Analysis
(A) Incorrect. For the reasons mentioned above.

(B) Correct.

(C) Incorrect. For the following reasons:

1. Two independent clauses are joined by a comma.

2/ Problem no. 2 of the original sentence.

(D) Incorrect. For the following reasons:

1. Error no. 1 of the original sentence

2. ‘the number of which will be dictated’ is not an independent clause. Thus, it should not be separated from the independent clause by a semi-colon.

(E) Incorrect. For the following reasons:

1. The dependent clause ‘when the size…’ seems to present the time of the action ‘are scheduled to take over’, producing a nonsensical meaning.

2. In this construction, the use of ‘however’ doesn’t make sense.
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