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As the state legislature continues to debate whether to pass a tough new recycling law, its enormous financial toll on certain local industries has become of primary concern.
(A) its enormous financial toll on
(B) the enormity of its financial toll on
(C) the enormous financial burden it has placed on
(D) the financial toll such a law would take on
(E) the enormous financial toll such a law would take with
(A) its enormous financial toll on
(B) the enormity of its financial toll on
(C) the enormous financial burden it has placed on
(D) the financial toll such a law would take on
(E) the enormous financial toll such a law would take with
09 Mar 2022, 03:04
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As the state legislature continues to debate whether to pass a tough new recycling law, its enormous financial toll on certain local industries has become of primary concern.
Meaning Analysis: While the state legislature is debating on whether to pass a law on recycling, the financial toll of this law on certain types of local industries is the main focus of concern
Sentence Structure:
As the state legislature continues to debate whether to pass a tough new recycling law (state legislature - subject; continues to debate - verb; "as" states a sense of simultaneous action)
its enormous financial toll (Subject)
on certain local industries (prepositional phrase modifying the subject "financial toll")
has become of primary concern. (Verb)
Error Analysis: The pronoun error: Logically it's must refer to "financial toll" However, the way it is placed in the sentence seems as if it is referring to "state legislature"
Note: When we have a subject at the beginning of a clause, followed by another clause in which the pronoun is the subject, then this pronoun could unambiguously refer to the subject of the previous clause.
(A) its enormous financial toll on - Incorrect - for the reasons stated above
(B) the enormity of its financial toll on - Incorrect - Though the placement of the pronoun has changed, the pronoun could still refer to financial toll.
(C) the enormous financial burden it has placed on - Incorrect - Same as above
(D) the financial toll such a law would take on - Correct - Replacing "it's" with the financial toll, the meaning becomes very straigh forward.
(E) the enormous financial toll such a law would take with - Incorrect - I believe the idiom is "toll on X" and not "toll with X"
Correct Answer: (D)
Experts Please comment
The sentence uses the possessive pronoun "it's" and I have seen a lot of rules in various books on the usage of possessive and non-possessive nouns. In all honesty, I will be very open about its usage. Having said that, 99% of the time this is what I follow:
(1) If there exists a possessive noun then use only a possessive pronoun
(2) if there exists a non-possessive noun then you can use a possessive and non-possessive pronoun
Keeping the above in mind I won't reject (A) just because it used "it's" (a possessive pronoun) for a state legislature (a non-possessive noun). I will rather eliminate it for a wrong meaning conveyed
Meaning Analysis: While the state legislature is debating on whether to pass a law on recycling, the financial toll of this law on certain types of local industries is the main focus of concern
Sentence Structure:
As the state legislature continues to debate whether to pass a tough new recycling law (state legislature - subject; continues to debate - verb; "as" states a sense of simultaneous action)
its enormous financial toll (Subject)
on certain local industries (prepositional phrase modifying the subject "financial toll")
has become of primary concern. (Verb)
Error Analysis: The pronoun error: Logically it's must refer to "financial toll" However, the way it is placed in the sentence seems as if it is referring to "state legislature"
Note: When we have a subject at the beginning of a clause, followed by another clause in which the pronoun is the subject, then this pronoun could unambiguously refer to the subject of the previous clause.
(A) its enormous financial toll on - Incorrect - for the reasons stated above
(B) the enormity of its financial toll on - Incorrect - Though the placement of the pronoun has changed, the pronoun could still refer to financial toll.
(C) the enormous financial burden it has placed on - Incorrect - Same as above
(D) the financial toll such a law would take on - Correct - Replacing "it's" with the financial toll, the meaning becomes very straigh forward.
(E) the enormous financial toll such a law would take with - Incorrect - I believe the idiom is "toll on X" and not "toll with X"
Correct Answer: (D)
Experts Please comment
The sentence uses the possessive pronoun "it's" and I have seen a lot of rules in various books on the usage of possessive and non-possessive nouns. In all honesty, I will be very open about its usage. Having said that, 99% of the time this is what I follow:
(1) If there exists a possessive noun then use only a possessive pronoun
(2) if there exists a non-possessive noun then you can use a possessive and non-possessive pronoun
Keeping the above in mind I won't reject (A) just because it used "it's" (a possessive pronoun) for a state legislature (a non-possessive noun). I will rather eliminate it for a wrong meaning conveyed
10 Mar 2022, 06:55
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Hoozan
Hello Hoozan,
We hope this finds you well.
To answer your query, you are correct to ignore the possessive pronoun rule, as the GMAT does not really test this rule on sentence correction anymore.
We hope this helps.
