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For one to insure one's home can be costly, and amount to a sum of $1500 per year.
A. one's home can be costly, and amount to a sum of
B. his home can be costly, and amount to
C. one's home can be costly, the amount sometimes even reaching
D. their home can be costly, and amount to
E. one's home can be costly, and amount to
A. one's home can be costly, and amount to a sum of
B. his home can be costly, and amount to
C. one's home can be costly, the amount sometimes even reaching
D. their home can be costly, and amount to
E. one's home can be costly, and amount to
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
For one to insure one's home can be costly, and amount to a sum of $1500 per year.
A. one's home can be costly, and amount to a sum of
Not quite.
This answer choice is grammatically correct but stylistically flawed because it is overly wordy. There is another answer choice that expresses the same meaning in fewer words.
B. his home can be costly, and amount to
Incorrect.
This answer choice is grammatically incorrect. The pronoun his can refer to human male nouns, but there's no such noun in the sentence.
What helps us identify this question as a Pronoun question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:
- Every pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after it
C. one's home can be costly, the amount sometimes even reaching
Not really.
This answer choice is grammatically correct but stylistically flawed because the phrase sometimes even reaching makes it overly wordy. There is another answer choice that expresses the same meaning in fewer words.
D. their home can be costly, and amount to
Not quite.
Although this answer choice is less wordy than the original, it is grammatically incorrect: the pronoun their refers to one but does not agree with it as one is singular and their is plural.
E. one's home can be costly, and amount to
This answer choice corrects the stylistic flaw in the original sentence. Using both amount to and a sum makes the sentence overly wordy. Additionally, it follows the pronoun rule: the pronoun one agrees with itself only.
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Option (E). I took 1:30 mins.
Most part of the answer analysis was split choosing between (A) and (E).
Finally chose (E) due to its conciseness. I couldn't find any grammatical errors in (A) either. So, maybe it's the "dreaded" redundancy that is at play here. Personally, my least favorite error determiner.
Option (B) and Option (D) can be eliminated due to "pronoun disagreement". "His" in option (B) should refer to a male antecedent which is nowhere to be found in the sentence prior to its placement. Similarly, there is no logical antecedent for "their" in option (D). Eliminate.
Option (C) changes the meaning of the sentence slightly. It now means to say that "sometimes" prices even tough $1500. The original meaning is not this. Eliminate.
Among (A) and (D), though both are grammatically correct, (D) triumphs over (B) for it's short and conveys the meaning correctly. (A) on the other hand, with just two extra words is "wordy" and thus goes into the "bin" for "redundancy".
Most part of the answer analysis was split choosing between (A) and (E).
Finally chose (E) due to its conciseness. I couldn't find any grammatical errors in (A) either. So, maybe it's the "dreaded" redundancy that is at play here. Personally, my least favorite error determiner.
Option (B) and Option (D) can be eliminated due to "pronoun disagreement". "His" in option (B) should refer to a male antecedent which is nowhere to be found in the sentence prior to its placement. Similarly, there is no logical antecedent for "their" in option (D). Eliminate.
Option (C) changes the meaning of the sentence slightly. It now means to say that "sometimes" prices even tough $1500. The original meaning is not this. Eliminate.
Among (A) and (D), though both are grammatically correct, (D) triumphs over (B) for it's short and conveys the meaning correctly. (A) on the other hand, with just two extra words is "wordy" and thus goes into the "bin" for "redundancy".
