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Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 13 Nov 2013, 07:22
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Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Benjamin Franklin to Open His Own Shop printing Because he Perceived That the quality of printing in Philadelphia

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I marked D but it is not the answer ..

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Originally posted by stunn3r on 13 Nov 2013, 04:28.
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   13 Nov 2013, 05:44
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   13 Nov 2013, 05:47
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Can you pls. specify the source of the question.



source is edvento tests. These come free with e-GMAT course
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   17 Dec 2013, 04:56
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   27 Jan 2014, 06:59
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Can someone please explain why choice D is incorrect?

I`m not expert but i believe D is grammatically correct but is a little wordy, and if you see B, the first part of sentence are modifying the governor and GMAT really like it.
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   08 Dec 2015, 19:23
Yes, B is more concise than D. Furthermore, there is no ambiguous pronoun in B. His clearly refers to BF.
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   09 Dec 2015, 07:22
stunn3r wrote:
Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Benjamin Franklin to Open His Own Shop printing Because he Perceived That the quality of printing in Philadelphia

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I marked D but it is not the answer ..

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shouldn't this be E?
I felt it is benjamin who perceived the quality of printing... and hence governor encouraged benjamin for his good job....


Experts.. can you please help?
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   09 Dec 2015, 07:28
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stunn3r wrote:
Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Benjamin Franklin to Open His Own Shop printing Because he Perceived That the quality of printing in Philadelphia

answer choices:

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I marked D but it is not the answer ..

Source : Edvento tests.


shouldn't this be E?
I felt it is benjamin who perceived the quality of printing... and hence governor encouraged benjamin for his good job....


Experts.. can you please help?



I'm not an expert, but I would clearly suggest that you try to comprehend what the original sentence is telling. In SC, the original sentence sets the tone, thus, you must find an answer choice that is not only grammatically but also logically correct.
Original statement says that the governor identified the problem with the quality. Then, he advised Mr. Benji to do smth...
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   09 Dec 2015, 11:28
B is the concise version of D.
E is changing the meaning my referring to Benjamin, instead of William.
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   09 Dec 2015, 11:29
For those, who are confused as to why the answer is B, and not D or E:

B is the concise version of D.
In E, the modifier is changing the meaning by referring to Benjamin, instead of William.
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   19 Dec 2015, 05:42
logically,
D says that Governor William encouraged Young Benjamin because William (Could be another person named as William Keith) perceived ....
Thus D is incorrect.

Does the above explanation help?
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   24 Feb 2016, 02:04
i find the option D to be right. Can someone elaborate as to what is wrong with option D ?
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   10 Jun 2019, 04:58
IMO none of the options are correct. If he and his should have the same antecedent, then none of the options make sense. Experts please help. Thanks!
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   15 Jun 2019, 23:50
Can someone explain why A is not the answer?
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Re: Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Ben [#permalink] New post   16 Jun 2019, 08:17
baliga007 wrote:
Can someone explain why A is not the answer?



Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged the Young Benjamin Franklin to Open His Own printing Shop Because he Perceived That the quality of printing in Philadelphia

The original sentence has pronoun error. lets read the sentence.

Pennsylvania Governor William Keith Encouraged (somebody) the Young Benjamin Franklin to (do something) Open His Own printing
Because he (who????????, is it governor or ben) Perceived That the quality of printing in Philadelphia

since the use of "he" is ambiguous, option A is not right.
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