meetnikhil wrote:
zhanbo wrote:
My choice is (D). It took me 1:17.
"Due to" is an adjective and cannot be used as adverb / modifier as in option (A) and (B). Admittedly, this is very strict convention that few people observe.
(C) is incorrect because subject-verb do not agree in "expectancies that increases":That modifies "expectancies", a plural noun. So "increases" has to be "increase".
(E) Same as above. Also, "having" in "because of having" can be deleted.
Between B and D, in D they is used. Earlier part of sentence mentions coyote population -- how can they refer to population?
I can not see any other antecedent for they.
Please help.
zhanboIn (D), "because
they have high survival rates in urban areas,
the coyotes copiously reproduce to maintain pair bonds and thus have much longer life expectancies that increase ..."
The antecedent for
they in the coordinate clause is actually
the coyotes in the main clause.
Check out
https://www.biomedicaleditor.com/grammar ... guous.html:
A pronoun (e.g., you, ours, she, this, whom, which, himself) takes the place of a noun or another pronoun, often to avoid repetition.
The noun, pronoun, or clause that a pronoun refers to, called an antecedent, usually appears earlier in the sentence, although it can also appear later. A pronoun should refer to one specific antecedent. An ambiguous pronoun antecedent occurs when a pronoun has two or more possible antecedents.