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22 Mar 2017, 23:34
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Hi ankujgupta, the key here is to realize that facilitates is the verb and the subject is nothing but the doer of the verb.
Here, the doer of facilitates is lying and hence, lying is the subject. Social interactions is actually the object (the receiver) of the verb.
p.s. Our book EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana discusses this method of identifying the subject. Have attached the corresponding section of the book, for your reference.
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While recognizing that lying often facilitates social ineractions,psychiatrists are seeking to determine when they become destructive and which kinds of mental problems they can signall.
a.they become destructive and which kinds of mental problems they can signal
b.they become destructive and the mental problems that are signaled by them
c.it becomes destructive and what are the kinds of mental problems they signal
d.it becomes destructive and the mental problems that are signaled by it
e.it becomes destructive and which kinds of mental problems it can signal
As per the meaning of the sentence the lying should be the subject
In choices A and B they does not have clear antecedent also since lying is singular they does not makes sense in this context
same problem in choice C as well
D is a passive voice in its tone
So E is the best of the lot.
a.they become destructive and which kinds of mental problems they can signal
b.they become destructive and the mental problems that are signaled by them
c.it becomes destructive and what are the kinds of mental problems they signal
d.it becomes destructive and the mental problems that are signaled by it
e.it becomes destructive and which kinds of mental problems it can signal
As per the meaning of the sentence the lying should be the subject
In choices A and B they does not have clear antecedent also since lying is singular they does not makes sense in this context
same problem in choice C as well
D is a passive voice in its tone
So E is the best of the lot.
24 Mar 2017, 03:55
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Are you asking why A is not correct ("they" referring to "social interactions" - "social interactions" can as well be the subject of "become")?
The pronoun "they" has two possible antecedents, "social ineractions" and "psychiatrists". If a pronoun is the subject of a clause and has two possible antecedents, one of which is the subject of another clause, then the subject pronoun, by virtue of parallelsim, would refer to the subject antecedent. Therefore in option A, "they" wrongly refers to "psychiatrists".
