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Updated on: 16 May 2019, 04:00
Originally posted by AliciaSierra on 03 Jun 2017, 11:15.
Last edited by Bunuel on 16 May 2019, 04:00, edited 2 times in total.
Last edited by Bunuel on 16 May 2019, 04:00, edited 2 times in total.
Edited the question.
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Since the movie was released seventeen UFOs have been sighted in the state, which is more than had been sighted in the past ten years together.
(A) which is more than had been sighted
(B) more than had been sighted
(C) more than they had sighted
(D) more than had reported sightings
(E) which is more than had reported sightings
(A) which is more than had been sighted
(B) more than had been sighted
(C) more than they had sighted
(D) more than had reported sightings
(E) which is more than had reported sightings
23 Aug 2017, 06:14
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A /E. Wrong - "which" is a relative pronoun and hence must refer to a noun. In this sentence, "which" refers wrongly to the (adjacent) noun "state".
C. The pronoun "they" wrongly refers to "UFOs".
D. The verb "had reported" does not have a subject ("UFOs" cannot report).
The best option among those given is B. The part "more than had been sighted.." is a modifier for the noun "seventeen UFOs". Compare with the following:
I have many issues, more than (the number of issues that) you have.
Similarly,
Seventeen UFOs have been sighted, more than (the numbers of UFOs that) had been sighted....
However the use of past perfect "had been" seems wrong to me. There is no reference of another verb /time before which this verb occurs.
15 Jul 2017, 15:32
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A and E can be eliminated since both use 'which' (can only be used to refer back to noun immediately before comma)
C has a pronoun 'they' which introduces ambiguity in the sentence and has no clear antecedent.
You can replace 'they' with 'the movie' in option 'C' and it will still make sense.
'D' introduces reported which causes parallelism error 'have been sighted' before the comma must be parallel to what comes after more than.
This leaves us to option 'B' which is correct.
C has a pronoun 'they' which introduces ambiguity in the sentence and has no clear antecedent.
You can replace 'they' with 'the movie' in option 'C' and it will still make sense.
'D' introduces reported which causes parallelism error 'have been sighted' before the comma must be parallel to what comes after more than.
This leaves us to option 'B' which is correct.
