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Although the word “phonetician” is popularly associated with Henry Higgins’s task of improving the diction of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, in linguistics, it is someone who studies the formation of language.


(A) it is someone who studies

(B) it is a person studying

(C) it refers to someone who studies

(D) they are people who study

(E) it is in reference to people who study


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Re: Although the word phonetician is popularly associated with Henry Hig [#permalink] New post   27 Mar 2023, 01:42
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Although the word “phonetician” is popularly associated with Henry Higgins’s task of improving the diction of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, in linguistics, it is someone who studies the formation of language.


(A) it is someone who studies

(B) it is a person studying

(C) it refers to someone who studies

(D) they are people who study

(E) it is in reference to people who study




I would go with (A). "It" may sound ambiguous but 4 options use "It" so we can do with that. "They" in (D) makes no sense to refer to "phonetician".
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Re: Although the word phonetician is popularly associated with Henry Hig [#permalink] New post   27 Mar 2023, 03:17
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Although the word “phonetician” is popularly associated with Henry Higgins’s task of improving the diction of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, in linguistics, it is someone who studies the formation of language.

(A) it is someone who studies - "it" refers to "the word" and it's illogical to say that a word is someone

(B) it is a person studying - Same as A

(C) it refers to someone who studies - "it" refers to "the word", but in this case the sentence conveys the word “phonetician” refers to "people" and that makes sense

(D) they are people who study - "they" has no logical antecedent

(E) it is in reference to people who study - C is a much better construct then E
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Re: Although the word phonetician is popularly associated with Henry Hig [#permalink] New post   28 Mar 2023, 01:08
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(C) it refers to someone who studies

antecedent of it is the word “phonetician”
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Re: Although the word phonetician is popularly associated with Henry Hig [#permalink] New post   01 Apr 2023, 19:15
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Although the word “phonetician” is popularly associated with Henry Higgins’s task of improving the diction of Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady, in linguistics, it is someone who studies the formation of language.


(A) it is someone who studies

(B) it is a person studying

(C) it refers to someone who studies

(D) they are people who study

(E) it is in reference to people who study


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The question here is: to what does the pronoun it refer? You might think it refers to phonetician, (in which case you might have thought the sentence was fine the way it was), but in fact it refers to the word. Choices A, B, and D could give the impression that the word is a person or persons. Choice E is awkward, and, like choice D, needlessly uses the plural people. The best answer is C.
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