satansanti wrote:This question is from Kaplan book.
Several consumer protection agencies have filed suit, seeking to bar distributors from advertising treatments for baldness
that brings no discernible improvement and may even result in potential harm.
the answer of the question is
that bring no discernible improvement and may even prove harmful.
From Manhattan SC, this is wrong. Because we should use that to refer to the noun preceding it.
So I wonder whether we can use this sentence.
Thank you for your ans
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A
that-modifier does not have to touch what it modifies.
Our primary concern is CLARITY:
As long as the referent for the
that-modifier is crystal clear, there can be a bit of distance between the
that-modifier and its referent.
Several consumer protection agencies have filed suit, seeking to bar distributors from advertising TREATMENTS for baldness that BRING no discernible improvement.
Here,
that bring (
that + PLURAL VERB) clearly refers to
treatments (the nearest preceding plural noun).
Since the referent for the
that-modifier is crystal clear, the sentence is correct.
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