uledssul wrote:
I wasn't sure of 'of all'/ 'all the other' split because they both seemed okay to me.
For the antecedents, its and their, Can somebody explain better about this?
As far as I know, you can't get rid of the choices strictly according to the ambiguity of antecedent usage.
I was thinking about the followings,
its = each of planets and the sun
their = the sun and all the other planets
Please help!
Thanks.
Hi There,
In his experiments with gravity, Isaac Newton showed how the motion of each planet in the solar system results from the combined gravitational pull of the Sun and
of all the other planets, each contributing according to their mass and distance from the others.
A. of all the other planets, each contributing according to their
B. of all the other planets, with each of them contributing according to their
C. all the other planets, each of which contributing according to its
D. all the other planets, each contributing according to its
E. all the other planets, each of which contribute according to their
Notice that each answer choice has “each” that makes the subject singular. Even if “each” is referring to “Sun and all the other planets”, it turns all the entities into singular. Hence, when we use “each” to talk about “Sun and all the other planets”, the pronoun that we use to refer to those entities that actually stands for “each” should be singular.
So in this problem, we have a case of pronoun antecedent number disagreement and not the ambiguity. We can eliminate
Choices A, B, and E because of the use of plural “their” with singular “each”.
Choice C is incorrect because “which” should introduce a clause. There is no verb after “which” that makes the choice incorrect.
Choice D is precise and free of errors.
Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Shraddha
Thanks, Shraddha, for the nice explanation. I selected
, because it was nice and clean but not for the explanation stated here. Can you please explain why do we need a verb after which in option