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21 Aug 2014, 22:29
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Dear friends:
in Manhattan GMAT's sentence correction book (5th edition guide 8, p72), there's this one portion that I simply do not understand:
it's about the usage of ambiguous pronouns:
so this is wrong:
since THEM may refer to packages or executives.
but this is right:
because THEY correctly refer to executives.
I do not understand
how come THEY here won't refer to packages?
in Manhattan GMAT's sentence correction book (5th edition guide 8, p72), there's this one portion that I simply do not understand:
it's about the usage of ambiguous pronouns:
so this is wrong:
Quote:
since THEM may refer to packages or executives.
but this is right:
Quote:
because THEY correctly refer to executives.
I do not understand
how come THEY here won't refer to packages?
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25 Aug 2014, 15:29
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I think I remember coming across this question. The Manhattan SC book does have a few odd question/answers that did not quite make sense to me. Luckily, the actual GMAT (and GMAT Prep) ended up being much more clear cut.
I wouldn't worry about this question too much. You are right; it is ambiguous in both cases. On the real GMAT, if a question is going to come down to pronoun ambiguity alone, it will be much more obvious, even on 700-800 level questions.
I wouldn't worry about this question too much. You are right; it is ambiguous in both cases. On the real GMAT, if a question is going to come down to pronoun ambiguity alone, it will be much more obvious, even on 700-800 level questions.
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narmfarmer
The real issue here isn't so much about a pronoun potentially referring to multiple nouns (because the GMAT is tolerant of that ambiguity) - it's an issue of switching the relationship of the pronoun within the sentence. The pronouns they & them should refer to the same noun whenever the appear in the sentence. The first example states "how much THEY may have been improperly awarded to THEM". If we replace the pronouns with the same noun the sentence doesn't make sense:
"how much the packages may have been improperly awarded to the packages"
or
"how much the executives may have been improperly awarded to the executives"
The sentence requires a shift between executives and packages in the sentence, so we cannot use a pronoun for both. The second sentence fixes the problem by using only a single pronoun.
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