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Exactly that's what I wanna know, how we can define what the author wants to say in this question. Because if we go with meaning, we refer to exactly what the author says in the original sentence. Now A option is just wrong because of pronoun error. Choosing option E would change its meaning.


Re "how we can define what the author wants to say in this question"

It's a judgement call

We need to apply some outside knowledge/logic in many GMAT questions

For example, see this sentence:
While watching TV, the dogs disturbed me.

The literal meaning is that the dogs were watching TV, and the dogs disturbed me.
Most of us would agree that is illogical, not what the writer meant.
Even though some dogs do watch TV (as some of my students have informed me :)

In the case of the question we are discussing, it makes less sense to speak of a language's mercantile heritage.
It makes more sense to speak of the mercantile heritage of the Portuguse nation or people.



(Having said all the above, let me point out that this is not an official question.
It's better to keep such detailed discussions for official questions made by the GMAC)

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Unique among the Romance languages, Portuguese features days that are not named but numbered, evidence of their strong mercantile heritage.

(A) features days that are not named but numbered, evidence of their strong mercantile heritage

(B) features days that are not named but numbered, evidence of its strong mercantile heritage

(C) has numbered rather named its days, evidence of its strong mercantile heritage

(D) numbered rather than named its days, out of its strong mercantile heritage

(E) features days that are not named but numbered, evidence of the strong Portuguese mercantile heritage

It's between B and E.

Both are grammatically correct but B doesn't have a logical meaning.

B suggests that the language has a strong mercantile heritage. The language does not have a strong mercantile heritage -- that is nonsensical. Rather, we're talking about the heritage of Portugal.

Answer is E.
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Experts ,

In my opinion,
phrase "days that are not named but numbered" talks about specific kind of days only which are numbered.
But logically this doesn't make sence.

Whereas option C has structured same in better and logical manner, keeping aside modifier "evidence of .......".

Someone pls suggest , how all other options excepts C make better sense with "that" modifier.

I too have the same opinion.
Though I am more skeptical about C than D because of the missing than in the rather construction. We can always change the meaning of the sentence if grammatically correct choices are not there.
Need some insights here.
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