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19 Aug 2019, 07:09
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Everyone participating in the early sociological study committed a crucial methodological error by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their data.
(A) by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their
(B) by failing fully to consider alternative ways of classifying their
(C) they failed to consider alternative ways to classify their
(D) by not fully considering alternative ways to classify the
(E) by not considering fully alternative ways of classifying his or her
(A) by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their
(B) by failing fully to consider alternative ways of classifying their
(C) they failed to consider alternative ways to classify their
(D) by not fully considering alternative ways to classify the
(E) by not considering fully alternative ways of classifying his or her
19 Aug 2019, 10:38
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(A) by failing to fully consider alternative ways of classifying their
Redundancy & not quite as polished as answer choice (D)
"Everyone committed an error by failing to [...]"
You'd expect something along the lines of
"Everyone committed an error by doing/not doing XYZ"
(B) by failing fully to consider alternative ways of classifying their
Failing fully changes the intended meaning, and I'm not even sure how saying "Failing fully" makes much sense
(C) they failed to consider alternative ways to classify their
this is missing "by", which is needed for the sentence to make sense
(D) by not fully considering alternative ways to classify the
Looks o.k
(E) by not considering fully alternative ways of classifying his or her
"Fully alternative" doesn't make much sense & changes the meaning
I feel like I might be missing something with the pronoun "Their", but I'm not quite certain. Very interested in seeing the explanation for the question.
19 Aug 2019, 10:58
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The answer is E. The question tests for the correct form of the pronoun referring to the subject "everyone". The subject of the sentence is "everyone" and it is a singular indefinite pronoun. So it is the right antecedent for his or her in option E. All the other options have "their" as the pronoun referring to the singular subject "everyone".
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