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Shawshank: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 305; Joined: Mon Jul 27, 2009 5:38 am; Thanked: 10 times

by Shawshank » Mon Apr 05, 2010 4:49 am

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

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student22: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 216; Joined: Mon Dec 21, 2009 10:26 am; Thanked: 16 times

by student22 » Mon Apr 05, 2010 7:41 am

harshavardhanc wrote:
fibbonnaci 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??
the noun that whose refers to is the book/publication : Shopping for a Better World

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.

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"

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fibbonnaci: MBA Student; Posts: 403; Joined: Tue Dec 22, 2009 7:32 pmFollowed by: 22 members; Thanked: 98 times

by fibbonnaci » Mon Apr 05, 2010 9:18 am

hey i am sorry, i missed that the whole thing is a publication/book. [can i be more stupid?? ]

Thanks for helping me out!

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papumba2011: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 28; Joined: Sat Feb 20, 2010 11:22 am

by papumba2011 » Mon Apr 05, 2010 10:55 am

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: '

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.

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