richachampion wrote:GMATGuruNY wrote:
An APPOSITIVE is a noun or noun phrase that serves to explain or define another noun phrase.
A: Presenters at the seminar, one who is blind
B: Presenters at the seminar, one...who is blind
In each case, the phrase in red seems to be an appositive for presenters at the seminar.
The implication is that PRESENTERS can be defined as ONE WHO IS BLIND.
This meaning is nonsensical.
Eliminate A and B.
Mr. Hunt, Whatever I have learned so far =
COMMA + CONCRETE NOUN usually stands for the DIRECTLY PRECEDING NOUN.
Here directly preceding noun is seminar. Although in that case also it will create a Nonsensical meaning, but what I can't understand is that how "COMMA + CONCRETE NOUN" is now following the seminar here.
one is not a concrete noun but a pronoun.
Since
who cannot refer to a non-person noun, it seems clear that
one who is intended to refer not to
seminars but to
PRESENTERS (the nearest preceding noun that refers to people).
An appositive does not have to refer to the immediately preceding noun if the intended referent is crystal clear.
An OA from GMAC:
The recent birth of a Sumatran rhinoceros in a Cincinnati zoo, the first birth in captivity for that species in over a century, is a landmark development.
Here, it is crystal clear from context that the intended referent for the appositive blue is not
zoo -- the immediately preceding noun -- but
the recent birth.
GMATGuruNY wrote:
An APPOSITIVE is a noun or noun phrase that serves to explain or define another noun phrase.
A:
Presenters at the seminar, one who is blind
B:
Presenters at the seminar, one...who is blind
In each case, the phrase in red seems to be an appositive for
presenters at the seminar.
OA: Presenters at the seminar, one of whom is blind, will demonstrate
Here, the portion in blue is not an appositive but a RELATIVE CLAUSE.
How come in D it is treated as as relative clause, but in A it is treated as an appositive. I belive both has subject and verb. Isn't it?
Or Perhaps I have some knowledge gap.
D:
Presenters at the seminar, one of whom is blind
Here,
whom is a relative pronoun serving to refer to
presenters, a noun that PRECEDES the comma.
As a result, the portion in blue is a relative clause serving to modify
presenters.
A:
Presenters at the seminar, one who is blind
Here,
who is a relative pronoun serving to refer to
one, a pronoun that FOLLOWS the comma.
As a result,
who is blind is a relative clause serving to modify NOT
presenters but
ONE, and the entire portion in red is an appositive intended to refer to
presenters.
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