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In most -- but certainly not all! -- cases, the pronoun "their" will refer to the most recent plural noun on the GMAT. In (A), "monkfish" is the closest plural, so there are absolutely no worries about pronoun ambiguity in this case.

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GMATNinja

Thank you for this helpful explanation.

To clarify, would Choice A be incorrect if the following was switched around to read as follows:
"There are no legal limits on the size of monkfish that can be caught, as there are for cod and haddock, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing." Does the "as there are for cod and haddock" need to be as close as possible to "limits"?

There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing.


(A) There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing.

(B) There are no legal limits on the size of monkfish that can be caught, unlike cod or haddock, a circumstance that contributes to depleting them because they are being overfished.

(C) There are legal limits on the size of cod and haddock that can be caught, but not for monkfish, which contributes to its depletion through overfishing.

(D) Unlike cod and haddock, there are no legal size limits on catching monkfish, which contributes to its depletion by being overfished.

(E) Unlike catching cod and haddock, there are no legal size limits on catching monkfish, contributing to their depletion because they are overfished.


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Their is used for plural subject. As per sentence overfishing will deplete monkfish and not cod/haddock. Monkfish is singular.

in option A, it says
" There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing."

Their is used for plural subject. As per sentence overfishing will deplete monkfish and not cod/haddock. Monkfish is singular. "Its" should have been used instead of "their".

Can anyone please clarify?

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Is the comparison in Option (C) correct?

(C) There are legal limits on the size of cod and haddock that can be caught, but not for monkfish, which contributes to its depletion through overfishing.

legal limits
1) on the size of cod and hammock
2) for monkfish (that can be caught)

Is the comparison logical?

Also, is the "that can be caught implied"?

Thanks

The "circumstance" referred to is the fact that there are no legal limits on the size of monkfish that can be caught. And I wouldn't call this part ("circumstance...") a modifier. Instead, it's just some additional, comma-separated, information (i.e. "Che Guevara was a revolutionary, a man who changed the course of history in Latin America.")

The construction in choice (A) is really just an alternative for something like this:

"There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can be caught. This circumstance contributes to their depletion through overfishing."

If you are okay with that last pair of sentences, then you should be okay with choice (A)!

[url=https://gmatclub.com:443/forum/memberlist.php?mode=viewprofile&un=GMATNinja%5D%5Bb%5DGMATNinja%5B/b%5D%5B/url%5D, Is that part what we call "Absolute Phrase" ?