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Can we agree here that "those" in option B refers to "Japanese Unions" and not just "Unions"?
Had the option said: "Unlike those in United States, the unions in Japan are reluctant to organise." then it would have been the most appropriate.
Isn't it wrong to refer to only the "Unions" when the subject is actually "Japanese Unions" even though we can argue that "Japanese" is acting as an adjective?
And most importantly, the statement might be intending to convey that a special type of union (Japanese union) is what needs to be talked about. So, explaining that "those" refer to just the "Unions" (stripping as per our whims and fancies) is a blatant mistake. This might actually send a wrong message to the participants/aspirants to accept that flexibility is permitted by GMAT.
Please shed some light on these points.
Note: I think it's a poorly made GMAT QUESTION and should not be used to learn anything new except the usage of "Like"
Can we agree here that "those" in option B refers to "Japanese Unions" and not just "Unions"?
Had the option said: "Unlike those in United States, the unions in Japan are reluctant to organise." then it would have been the most appropriate.
Isn't it wrong to refer to only the "Unions" when the subject is actually "Japanese Unions" even though we can argue that "Japanese" is acting as an adjective?
And most importantly, the statement might be intending to convey that a special type of union (Japanese union) is what needs to be talked about. So, explaining that "those" refer to just the "Unions" (stripping as per our whims and fancies) is a blatant mistake. This might actually send a wrong message to the participants/aspirants to accept that flexibility is permitted by GMAT.
Please shed some light on these points.
Note: I think it's a poorly made GMAT QUESTION and should not be used to learn anything new except the usage of "Like"
19 Jun 2020, 11:39
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Not really.
While the sentence would be more ideally constructed if it contrasted "those in the United States" with "unions in Japan, "those" has to refer to "unions" not "Japanese unions," because, if it referred to "Japanese unions," then the contrast would not be logical.
In order for the sentence to work, "those in the United States" has to be contrasted with some OTHER specific set of unions, such as "Japanese unions."
So, the two specific sets of unions are unions in the United States and Japanese unions.
The wording that is used to categorize, or modify, the two types of unions does not have to match. Here's an analogous example:
- Unlike cars bought in showrooms, stolen cars generally do not have complete sets of documents in their glove compartments.
- Unlike those bought in showrooms, stolen cars generally do not have complete sets of documents in their glove compartments.
- Unlike showroom bought cars, stolen cars generally do not have complete sets of documents in their glove compartments.
You can see that, even though the the modifiers that modify the two types of cars are different types of modifiers, we still have an effectively expressed contrast.
So, as you mentioned, to correctly answer a Sentence Correction question, you may have to be a bit flexible. The correct answer to this question, while not ideal, is not horrible.
