Found thid thread in Manhattan where RON has explained this problem.
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/in- ... t5735.html
This will definitely help..
WHOSE can refer to things and people -- I HAD NO IDEA>>> MUST ADMIT
A tough one from GMAT Prep
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student22
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Exactly, imagine the book's name as you would a person's name. If a sentence said "....John Smith, whose...". The relative pronoun obviously refers to "John Smith" and not just "Smith"harshavardhanc wrote:the noun that whose refers to is the book/publication : Shopping for a Better Worldfibbonnaci wrote:hey 'whose' is a relative pronoun. Therefore it refers to the noun going just before it. Here in this case:'world'
how can E be correct? how can world have a thesis??
that's why you see the first letters as capitalized. It is one single entity and as rightly said by Samarpan, we cannot break it up in individual words to form different nouns.
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fibbonnaci
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hey i am sorry, i missed that the whole thing is a publication/book. [can i be more stupid?? ]
Thanks for helping me out!
Thanks for helping me out!
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papumba2011
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Well Kevin, the answer is E. But I am kind of confused why A is ruled out. I tought both A and E to be very close.kevincanspain wrote:It sounds awkward to say 'the simple thesis of consumers having ...' and this construction makes the sentence far too long. E is correctly written and concise, and it makes effective use of the colon to break the sentence into two shorter ones. I would have also liked 'which had a simple thesis: '
