One should have respect and cherish one's natural surroundings

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

One should have respect and cherish one's natural surroundings.


A. and cherish one's

This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The verb have respect requires a preposition in order to logically connect to one's natural surroundings. One has respect for something.

Whenever the first verb requires a preposition after it and the second verb does not, the preposition must not be omitted:

Incorrect: John cares and loves Jane.
Correct: John cares for and loves Jane.

What helps us identify this question as a Split Construction question and identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

A split construction: Verb A + and/or + Verb B + object

B. for and cherish one's

This answer choice corrects the original Split Construction error by adding the required preposition for in order to logically connect the verb have respect to the phrase one's natural surroundings.


C. for and cherish his

Although this answer choice corrects the original Split Construction error by inserting the preposition for, it creates another grammatical error. The pronoun his can refer to human male nouns, but there's no such noun in the sentence.

The pronoun one agrees with itself only.

What helps us identify this question as a Pronoun question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

Every pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after it

D. for and should also cherish one's

Although this answer choice corrects the original Split Construction error by inserting the preposition for, it is wordy and, therefore, redundant. Look for a more concise answer choice.


E. for and cherish their

Although this answer choice corrects the original Split Construction error by inserting the preposition for, it creates another grammatical error. The pronoun their refers to one but does not agree with it as one is singular and their is plural..

The pronoun one agrees with itself only.

What helps us identify this question as a Pronoun question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:

Every pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after it

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My answer is (B). It took me 24 seconds.

(A) Either "One should respect it" OR "One should have respect for it", but NOT "One should have respect it".

(B) One and one's are parallel.

(C) It used to be common practice, but such practice is now frowned upon. GMAT might not like it.

(D) Wordy, and "also" is also redundant.

(E) This is getting interesting. They / Their / Them is now widely embraced as a generic third-person singular pronoun in English. Does GMAT accept it? Because GMAT questions were written many years ago, test writers could not have been aware of the recent development. But things might change over time.

One should have respect and cherish one's natural surroundings.
(B) is correct

A. and cherish one's
Respect is used as noun so "for" is needed

B. for and cherish one's
Correct

C. for and cherish his
Pronoun ambiguity why not her in place of his, Recently many good publications have started using "their" as singular pronoun to avoid such ambiguity while maintaining equality.

D. for and should also cherish one's
Should is redundant

E. for and cherish their
See "C" GMAC has not approved such use as of now

A. and cherish one's
The meaning isn't complete without for therefore out

B. for and cherish one's
The meaning is perfect therefore let us hang on to it

C. for and cherish his
one is perfect usage his isn't prefered therefore out

D. for and should also cherish one's
also is redundant therefore out

E. for and cherish their
Their isn't the right usage therefore out

Therefore IMO D

One should have respect and cherish one's natural surroundings.

A. and cherish one's - Incorrect. Idiom error. 'respect for' is the correct usage.
B. for and cherish one's - Correct
C. for and cherish his- Incorrect. 'his' is incorrectly used.
D. for and should also cherish one's- Incorrect. Wordy.
E. for and cherish their- Incorrect. Subject verb agreement error. 'Their' is incorrect here.

IMO B

Looking into this structure this is a list of 2 sentence, with conjunction 'and' acting as the connector. The original sentence has to break as

One should have

respect and

cherish one's natural surroundings.

one's here indicate that something

belongs or relates to people in general, or

belongs or relates to themselves in particular.

Ask question cherish what? We know one's natural surroundings
But what about respect what? We don't know. Then, this should be

One should have

respect one's natural surroundings and

cherish one's natural surroundings.

This breaks the grammar of the sentence because of the usage of 'should have'.
So 'have respect for' is required to make the sentence parallel.
One should

have respect for one's natural surroundings and

cherish one's natural surroundings.

Since 'have respect for' and 'cherish' are parallel, we can move "one's natural surroundings" to the end and apply to both.

One should

have respect for and

cherish

one's natural surroundings.

A. and cherish one's
Not parallel, as per the explanation above.

B. for and cherish one's
Correct, as it makes the list items parallel.

C. for and cherish his
his = limits the scope to masculine gender and breaks the meaning of original sentence.

D. for and should also cherish one's
Redundancy with also makes the sentence wordy.

E. for and cherish their
their usage is colloquial and not grammatically correct.

Hence the correct answer choice is B

One should have respect and cherish one's natural surroundings.

A. and cherish one's
B. for and cherish one's
C. for and cherish his
D. for and should also cherish one's
E. for and cherish their

Split 1: "one should have respect for --> answer A eliminated.
split 2: Cherish one's -->
B - one's doesn't seem ok - hold.
C - his - no where else gender is mentioned - eliminated.
D - Too long & unnecessary words - eliminated.
E - cherish their - their is a better word as gender is not known - Hold

Between B & E - I prefer E

Answer : E

One should have respect and cherish one's natural surroundings.

A. and cherish one's -> we need for. Incorrect
B. for and cherish one's -> parallel and better. Let's keep it.
C. for and cherish his -> Parallelism error. Incorrect.
D. for and should also cherish one's -> why do we use "also". Incorrect.
E. for and cherish their -> their doesn't have precedent to refer. Incorrect.

So, I think B.

One should have respect and cherish one's natural surroundings.

A. and cherish one's
B. for and cherish one's
C. for and cherish his
D. for and should also cherish one's
E. for and cherish their

Ok first thing is when we have "one" we cannot use "his"/ "their" / "her" etc. We have to use "one's"

So on that basis eliminate C and E

D. for and should also cherish one's : This one is unnecessarily lengthy as there is no need to repeat "should also": Eliminate D

Between A and B, B is better as "One should have respect " is not a separate item or clause ; it is actually "One should have respect for one's natural surroundings." B conveys it correctly. So IMO B is correct

A. and cherish one's
B. for and cherish one's

One should have respect and cherish one's natural surroundings.

A. and cherish one's Incorrect

One should have respect for.............. or One should respect ......

B. for and cherish one's Correct

C. for and cherish his Incorrect

his should be one's

D. for and should also cherish one's Incorrect

should also uses redundant

E. for and cherish their Incorrect

their should be one
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