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26 Oct 2016, 12:48
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--------------------, without their realizing his identity.
A. Secretly determined to break up the drug dealer’s ring, the undercover agent with the local pushers joined forces
B. Secretly determined to break up the drug dealer’s ring, the undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers
C. The undercover agent secretly joined forces with local pushers in order to destroy their ring
D. The undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers and secretly determined to destroy their ring
E. Secretly determined to destroy the rings, the local pushers and the undercover agent joined forces
F. The undercover agent secretly joined forces with local pushers in order to destroy the drug dealer's ring
G. The undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers and secretly determined to destroy the drug dealer's ring
Hi,
I am from Iran. This question is taken from GMAT book. The answer is option B. But our English teacher who is a nonnative English speaker added two other options (F and G) for the question and he asked us to do a survey about options F and G to see whether options F and G can work in the above question or not.
Some people say that F and G are OK and some other people say that F and G are wrong.
Some people say that its OK to say that "their" can refer to the "local pushers" in F and G.
What's your opinion about F and G?
Thank you.
A. Secretly determined to break up the drug dealer’s ring, the undercover agent with the local pushers joined forces
B. Secretly determined to break up the drug dealer’s ring, the undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers
C. The undercover agent secretly joined forces with local pushers in order to destroy their ring
D. The undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers and secretly determined to destroy their ring
E. Secretly determined to destroy the rings, the local pushers and the undercover agent joined forces
F. The undercover agent secretly joined forces with local pushers in order to destroy the drug dealer's ring
G. The undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers and secretly determined to destroy the drug dealer's ring
Hi,
I am from Iran. This question is taken from GMAT book. The answer is option B. But our English teacher who is a nonnative English speaker added two other options (F and G) for the question and he asked us to do a survey about options F and G to see whether options F and G can work in the above question or not.
Some people say that F and G are OK and some other people say that F and G are wrong.
Some people say that its OK to say that "their" can refer to the "local pushers" in F and G.
What's your opinion about F and G?
Thank you.
26 Oct 2016, 16:48
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Secretly determined to break up the drug dealer’s ring, the undercover agent with the local pushers joined forces, without their realizing his identity.
A. Secretly determined to break up the drug dealer’s ring, the undercover agent with the local pushers joined forces
B. Secretly determined to break up the drug dealer’s ring, the undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers
C. The undercover agent secretly joined forces with local pushers in order to destroy their ring
D. The undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers and secretly determined to destroy their ring
E. Secretly determined to destroy the rings, the local pushers and the undercover agent joined forces
F. The undercover agent secretly joined forces with local pushers in order to destroy the drug dealer's ring
G. The undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers and secretly determined to destroy the drug dealer's ring
Hi,
I am from Iran. This question is taken from GMAT book. The answer is option B. But our English teacher who is a nonnative English speaker added two other options (F and G) for the question and he asked us to do a survey about options F and G to see whether options F and G can work in the above question or not.
Some people say that F and G are OK and some other people say that F and G are wrong.
Some people say that its OK to say that "their" can refer to the "local pushers" in F and G.
What's your opinion about F and G?
Thank you.
Dear sb70012,A. Secretly determined to break up the drug dealer’s ring, the undercover agent with the local pushers joined forces
B. Secretly determined to break up the drug dealer’s ring, the undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers
C. The undercover agent secretly joined forces with local pushers in order to destroy their ring
D. The undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers and secretly determined to destroy their ring
E. Secretly determined to destroy the rings, the local pushers and the undercover agent joined forces
F. The undercover agent secretly joined forces with local pushers in order to destroy the drug dealer's ring
G. The undercover agent joined forces with the local pushers and secretly determined to destroy the drug dealer's ring
Hi,
I am from Iran. This question is taken from GMAT book. The answer is option B. But our English teacher who is a nonnative English speaker added two other options (F and G) for the question and he asked us to do a survey about options F and G to see whether options F and G can work in the above question or not.
Some people say that F and G are OK and some other people say that F and G are wrong.
Some people say that its OK to say that "their" can refer to the "local pushers" in F and G.
What's your opinion about F and G?
Thank you.
I'm happy to help.
In (B), the OA, it's very clear that
"his" refers to "the undercover agent"
"theirs" refers to "the pushers"
All that is correct.
In my mind, in (F) & (G), the problem is not the word "their," which correctly refers to "the pushers." That's 100% fine. The problem is that "his" seems to refer to the closest singular noun, "the drug dealer." Ordinarily, a noun in the possessive cannot be an antecedent, but the exception is that a noun in the possessive can be the antecedent of a possessive pronoun. Thus, in (F) & (G), "his" refers to "the drug dealer," and this changes the meaning.
This is important to understand: (F) & (G) are grammatically correct on their own, but because they state a different meaning from the prompt, they cannot be considered correct answer in the context of the this SC question. The OA of this question is a well-crafted gem, and it would be hard to change it without introducing an error of one kind or another.
Does all this make sense?
Mike
