Even after a great deal of editing, the final report, a summary of which projects the department had just started last year and who they'd done them for, would have been over a thousand pages long if anyone had felt the need to print it out on paper.
A. a summary of which projects the department had just started last year and who they'd done them for
B. which summarized the projects that the department was just starting and which had been done for whom last year,
C. a summary of which projects the department had just started last year and for whom they'd done them,
D. being a summary of last year's department projects and who they'd done them for,
E. which summarized who the department worked for when just starting and what it was working on,
ANS IS C
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Hi Vishugogo,
If this is a real question put out by Grockit, it's a very poor example of a Sentence Correction sentence.
For one thing, I have never seen an official GMAT question that contained contractions of any kind - let alone in the "right" answer! You will never see "they'd" on the GMAT.
For another, the GMAT would never allow a correct answer in which "they" and "them" referred to two different antecedents. In C, "they'd" presumably refers to "department," and "them" refers to projects. You are definitely not allowed to switch your referents on the GMAT!
And furthermore, you are NEVER allowed to use "they" to refer to a singular noun. "Department" must be replaced with an "it," not "they."
I'd recommend that you find another source for practice material!
If this is a real question put out by Grockit, it's a very poor example of a Sentence Correction sentence.
For one thing, I have never seen an official GMAT question that contained contractions of any kind - let alone in the "right" answer! You will never see "they'd" on the GMAT.
For another, the GMAT would never allow a correct answer in which "they" and "them" referred to two different antecedents. In C, "they'd" presumably refers to "department," and "them" refers to projects. You are definitely not allowed to switch your referents on the GMAT!
And furthermore, you are NEVER allowed to use "they" to refer to a singular noun. "Department" must be replaced with an "it," not "they."
I'd recommend that you find another source for practice material!
Ceilidh Erickson
EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
