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17 Mar 2013, 03:11
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The press release claims that the president of France is older than that of the United States.
The MGMAT SC book has this sentence as correct answer in one of the exercises(Pg-208 Q-9)
I do not think that the above sentence is grammatically correct. We know that THAT cannot be used to refer to human beings. Here that is used for the President.
Can somebody please explain this
The MGMAT SC book has this sentence as correct answer in one of the exercises(Pg-208 Q-9)
I do not think that the above sentence is grammatically correct. We know that THAT cannot be used to refer to human beings. Here that is used for the President.
Can somebody please explain this
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17 Mar 2013, 04:13
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The press release claims that the president of France is older than that of the United States.
Hi Dipankar,
You are confused between the use of THAT as a Demonstrative pronoun & Relative pronoun.
If THAT is used as relative pronoun,then it can not be used to modify Human beings. But in this sentence THAT is used as a Demonstrative pronoun so we can use it to refer a human being.
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17 Mar 2013, 07:37
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'That ', a restrictive pronoun, which refers to a specific noun (either a thing or a person) in the previous part of the clause, is also usable for human beings. Apart from the restrictive nature of the comparison, which requires the use of ‘that’ we cannot think of a different pronoun in this case to replace “that”. Can we? Or we must totally avoid the pronoun ‘that’.
. Nevertheless, thanx for the explanation. 
