Sentence Correction

In late 1997,the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors fo cleaning and repairing due to moisture exhaled by tourists,which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing in the walls.

A) due to moisture exhaled by tourists,which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing
B) due to moisture that tourists had exhaled,thereby raising its humidity to such levels that salt from the stone would crystallize.

C) because tourists were exhaling moisture,which had raised the humidity within then to levels such that salt from the stone would crystallize.
D)because of moisture that was exhaled by tourists raising the humidity within them to levels so high as to mke the salt fron the stone crystallize.

E) because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing.


My doubt here is that in the correct option is 'them' not referring to 'tourists'?ans is E

The correct answer should be (E) because only (A) and (E) show parallelism. Option (A) is incorrect because of uses of WHICH that incorrectly refers to MOISTURE.

My doubt here is that in the correct option is 'them' not referring to 'tourists'?

No. 'THEM' is not referring to tourist because it is neither the subject nor object of the sentence. This is one of the GMAT trap. In short, THEM correctly refers to subject of the sentence, i.e. CHAMBERS

RULE: If a noun is neither subject or object of main clause/sentence then it doesn't introduce pronoun ambiguity in that sentence.

shilpi84 wrote:In late 1997,the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors fo cleaning and repairing due to moisture exhaled by tourists,which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing in the walls.

A) due to moisture exhaled by tourists,which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing
B) due to moisture that tourists had exhaled,thereby raising its humidity to such levels that salt from the stone would crystallize.

C) because tourists were exhaling moisture,which had raised the humidity within then to levels such that salt from the stone would crystallize.
D)because of moisture that was exhaled by tourists raising the humidity within them to levels so high as to mke the salt fron the stone crystallize.

E) because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing.


My doubt here is that in the correct option is 'them' not referring to 'tourists'?ans is E

Great POST, but poor representation of the SC sentence. It is so darn confusing if the the original sentence produced is ambiguous. I am referring to the underlined part starting from "due to ..." Is phrase "due to" also not underlined? If not, then I apologize

IMO..

WHICH correctly refers to moisture. The problem with (A) is - the usage of it's. The sentence talks about chambers and hence we need THEM here. (E) rectifies the mistake and is parallel.

codesnooker wrote:The correct answer should be (E) because only (A) and (E) show parallelism. Option (A) is incorrect because of uses of WHICH that incorrectly refers to MOISTURE.

My doubt here is that in the correct option is 'them' not referring to 'tourists'?

No. 'THEM' is not referring to tourist because it is neither the subject nor object of the sentence. This is one of the GMAT trap. In short, THEM correctly refers to subject of the sentence, i.e. CHAMBERS

RULE: If a noun is neither subject or object of main clause/sentence then it doesn't introduce pronoun ambiguity in that sentence.

2-3 spilit

We need because not due to.
*due to means caused by.

C- passive

D awkward

E wins

can someone explain what 3:2 split is..
I keep reading this but don't know what it is..

In this example, I guess 3 wins over 2?

Is that a correct inference?


Thanks in advance
Shruti

KICKGMATASS123 wrote:can someone explain what 3:2 split is..
I keep reading this but don't know what it is..

In this example, I guess 3 wins over 2?

Is that a correct inference?


Thanks in advance
Shruti

80% of the you can break sentence into 2 parts.
3 choices will have same construction with different errors and meaning while rest 2 will follow same patteren.

Now its upto you to select which pattern will suit for the question.

Hope this helps.

can someone explain the tense used in E. 'Exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity'

Why is past perfect used in 'had raised the humidity'? I am guessing that exhaled is earlier past action and rasing of humidity is later past action.