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They in the sentence refers to "producers" or "artists"? can some one clarify. Usage of they - it is not ambiguous?
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Producers of jazz albums tend to back artists that they expect will gain popularity in the key European market, and who are.


A. that they expect will gain popularity in the key European market, and who are

B. that are expected to gain popularity in the key European market, and they have

C. they expect to gain popularity in the key European market, and who do

D. being expected to gain popularity in the key European market, and have

E. had been expected to gain popularity in the key European market, and they have

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Creating a filter: in the original sentence, the relative pronoun "that" should be "whom," since artists are people. That inaccuracy may not be a decisive defect, however. To improve the phrasing, I'd omit a couple words through elision without loss of clarity and say, "tend to back artists they expect to gain...," which is perfectly grammatical. We can use this prediction of the correct answer as our filter.

Applying the filter: scanning down, we can see that our prediction is quite similar to answer choice (C). Choices (B) and (E) use "they" in a new independent clause that could refer falsely to the producers, so those two are out. Choice (D) is missing a relative pronoun such as "who," and it uses a needless gerund, "being," at the beginning of the phrase. Reflecting back on (A), we can see that the future tense of "will gain popularity" lacks consistency of grammar and sense with the latter verb in "who are."

The correct answer is (C).
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Is there any more to this discussion?
You may want to try the official question that this question is based on.
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Producers of jazz albums tend to back artists that they expect will gain popularity in the key European market, and who are.


A. that they expect will gain popularity in the key European market, and who are

B. that are expected to gain popularity in the key European market, and they have

C. they expect to gain popularity in the key European market, and who do

D. being expected to gain popularity in the key European market, and have

E. had been expected to gain popularity in the key European market, and they have

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Creating a filter: in the original sentence, the relative pronoun "that" should be "whom," since artists are people. That inaccuracy may not be a decisive defect, however. To improve the phrasing, I'd omit a couple words through elision without loss of clarity and say, "tend to back artists they expect to gain...," which is perfectly grammatical. We can use this prediction of the correct answer as our filter.

Applying the filter: scanning down, we can see that our prediction is quite similar to answer choice (C). Choices (B) and (E) use "they" in a new independent clause that could refer falsely to the producers, so those two are out. Choice (D) is missing a relative pronoun such as "who," and it uses a needless gerund, "being," at the beginning of the phrase. Reflecting back on (A), we can see that the future tense of "will gain popularity" lacks consistency of grammar and sense with the latter verb in "who are."

The correct answer is (C).

Wouldn't answer choice (C) have to read as "and those who do" for it to be correct?
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Wouldn't answer choice (C) have to read as "and those who do" for it to be correct?
Hi Moulika, generally speaking, if we have a structure such as and those, we would expect a corresponding matching those in the first part of the sentence.

So, perhaps a better construct would be:

Producers of jazz albums tend to back those artists whom they expect to gain popularity in the key European market, and those who do.
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