Out of curiosity, Is the present tense "are", which is earlier than future tense " will visit", valid in A if focus on only tense ?( please point out which one is better, only tense or tense only ) In this case, I totally got that perfect past "have been trimmed" reveals the earlier action than visit. In fact, one of the answer choices uses the pronoun "she" and stands incorrect because "she", a non-possesive pronoun, CANNOT refer to possessive noun entity. In this one, "her" refers to "Phyllis Whetley's", a Possesive Noun Entity. In her later poems, Phyllis Wheatley's blending of solar imagery, Judeo-Christian thought and figures, and images borrowed from ancient classicism suggests her range and depth of influences, not the least of which is her African heritage. Let's take a look at another official sentence where this usage is correct: OG13 Q#109 would have been incorrect if it had used the Pronoun "she" to refer to "Bona Dea's" because a non-possessive pronoun CANNOT refer to a Noun in Possessive Form. > Here, "her" correctly refers to "Dia", a non-possessive Noun Entity. For example:ĭia brought her dog to the exhibition. In fact, Possessive Pronouns can also refer to non-possessive Noun entity in a sentence. This is the reason why all the answer choices use "her" because it clearly refers to the Noun Entity "Bona Dea's" that is in possessive case. Henec, it can very well refer to another Noun Entity in Poessessive form. Please note that "her" is a Possessive Pronoun. There is absolutely no problem and certainly no exception in this official question. The silver lining is that all 5 answer choices use her, so you don't really have to choose an option based on this. This is the correct answer, though there is no explicit referent of her. So, GMAT seems to be permissive in this regard.Īmong the objects found in the excavated temple were small terra-cotta effigies left by supplicants who were either asking the goddess Bona Dea's aid in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help. On a separate note, it is interesting to note that there are at least a couple of examples in OG, where the pronoun in question does not have any direct referent, but still GMAT considers it acceptable. Here he has no referent.As ravi's car is mentioned but ravi is not mentioned. Ravi's car broke down,so he walked back to the hotel. Thus without getting into the grammatical nuances, you can eliminate choice E on the account of meaning shift from the original sentence Now look at your understanding of choice E (which by the way is correct!!). Is the original sentence saying that the tourists will see 1 rhino or many rhinos in general? Just pay close attention to the original sentence.Ī proposal has been made to trim the horns from rhinoceroses to discourage poachers the question is whether tourists will continue to visit game parks and see rhinoceroses after their horns are trimmed. I believe you can arrive at the answer on your own. Is it correct?ĭear you for posting this question. The phrase is generally used in spoken english. But what does "one" imply? It seems choice E says that tourists will continue to visit parks to see a rhinoceros (one of the many rhinoceroses) once the animals horns are trimmed. Sure the choice E don't sound as precise as option C. Today many rural and foreign speakers still don't think of children as plural, and have added a third suffix, yielding the triply plural childrens.I'm trying to understand significance and correctness of use of "one" in phrase "to see one after the animals' horns have been trimmed" in choice E. But people stopped hearing it as a plural, and when they had to refer to more than one child, they added a second plural marker, -en. Once it was childer, with the old plural suffix -er also seen in the German equivalent Kinder. Nonstandard dialects are filled with double plurals such as oxens, dices, lices, and feets, and that is how we got the strangest plural in Standard English, children. This is happening today to the noun data, which often refers to large quantities of information and which is easily conceived of as stuff rather than things the word is turning from a plural ( many data) to a mass noun ( much data). The linguist Peter Tiersma has found that whenever a set of objects can easily be construed as a single assemblage, a regular plural is in danger of congealing into a mass noun or an irregular plural. "In his song One Hippopotami, the comedian Alan Sherman sang, 'The plural of "half" is "whole" the plural of "two minks" is "one mink stole."' It is an astute observation.
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