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SC [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2022, 08:24
The driver took the people for a ride who had been waiting.

Is this correct?

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SC [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2022, 08:39
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ekanshgoyal wrote:
The driver took the people for a ride who had been waiting.

Wouldn't this be infinitely better:

The driver took the people who had been waiting, for a ride.
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Re: SC [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2022, 10:09
EducationAisle wrote:
ekanshgoyal wrote:
The driver took the people for a ride who had been waiting.

Wouldn't this be infinitely better:

The driver took the people who had been waiting, for a ride.


But why above sentence is wrong? And can we refer who to non living things?
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Re: SC [#permalink] New post   11 Jan 2022, 23:48
It is because the original sentence conveys a wrong intended meaning. To take someone for a ride, is an idiom which means to deceive or to cheat. GMAT needs not just grammar but also also meaning.
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Re: SC [#permalink] New post   12 Jan 2022, 00:30
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sivatx2 wrote:
It is because the original sentence conveys a wrong intended meaning. To take someone for a ride, is an idiom which means to deceive or to cheat. GMAT needs not just grammar but also also meaning.

Oh yeah...this completely missed my attention :) .

So, the correct sentence will be:

The driver gave the people who had been waiting, a ride.
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