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by umaa » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:17 am
The government's failing to keep it's pledges will earn the distrust of all the other nations in the alliance.

B. government failing to keep it's pledges
C.government's failing to keep its pledges
D. government failing to keep its pledges
E. governments failing to keep their pledges
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by rahulakacyrus » Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:04 am
is the answer D?
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by poonam1279 » Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:08 am
IMO D
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by gkammaje » Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:50 am
government is correct here -
eliminate A,C and E
stuck between B and D...

would pick B during the test
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by WannaBThere » Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:20 am
IMO D!!

"government" and "it" can not be possessive; so A, B and C are eliminated.

Also "Government" can not be plural in this sentence, as it is "THE Government". Thus, E is eliminated. (Any alternative reason for eliminating E?)
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by rahulakacyrus » Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:27 am
The OA please...
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by 4meonly » Fri Jan 30, 2009 12:45 pm
umaa wrote:The government's failing to keep it's pledges will earn the distrust of all the other nations in the alliance.

B. government failing to keep it's pledges
C.government's failing to keep its pledges
D. government failing to keep its pledges
E. governments failing to keep their pledges
The government ... will earn the distrust of all the other nations in the alliance

Failing cannot earn, thus goverment will earn - we have only B and D
in B it's = it is
BUT we need possisive pronoun its! Thus (D)
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by umaa » Fri Jan 30, 2009 1:19 pm
Yea. Even I chose D. But the answer is C.
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by rahulakacyrus » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:43 pm
umaa where is this question from?
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by umaa » Fri Jan 30, 2009 6:46 pm
Its from Barron's GMAT
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by reachac » Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:40 pm
'its' is a possessive pronoun, must modify a possessive noun.
Remember the 'possessive poison' rule from MHSC 2003ed.

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by pbanavara » Fri Jan 30, 2009 8:54 pm
What's different between C and A - unless something is typed in white colored font

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by piyush_nitt » Fri Jan 30, 2009 10:38 pm
reachac wrote:'its' is a possessive pronoun, must modify a possessive noun.
Remember the 'possessive poison' rule from MHSC 2003ed.

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Reachac,

Below sentence is from MHSC-2003ed


When the person calls, take down his information.

So in this sentence , person is a subject noun and his is a possessive pronoun .

Do you think this sentence is correct?

IMO possessive noun can be referred only by possessive pronoun but subject noun can be referred by possessive pronoun.

Please correct ME!
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by reachac » Sat Jan 31, 2009 2:09 am
Thanks for correcting me on this.
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