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by nycknicks11 » Mon May 09, 2011 9:53 pm
Two questions for this one:

1) Isn't "they" ambiguous at best? Although I think it refers to "researchers." "They" was already used for researchers once

2) Let's say the first "they" was never used for "researchers." Would you still be able to use "they" for plastics? I would imagine if you want to do so, you still have to put "that" infront of "they" so you have two parallel items talking about the plastic: that X and that Y.
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by Target2009 » Mon May 09, 2011 9:58 pm
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by nycknicks11 » Mon May 09, 2011 11:12 pm
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by HSPA » Thu May 19, 2011 5:08 am
Here the subject is "rate of dis-integration" not "plastics"

than it originally seemed is correct

In E it and they both are trying to point to rate of disintegarion. It is not a meaningful construction.
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by Frankenstein » Thu May 19, 2011 6:44 am
HSPA wrote:Here the subject is "rate of dis-integration" not "plastics"

than it originally seemed is correct

In E it and they both are trying to point to rate of disintegarion. It is not a meaningful construction.
Hi,
I think the subject here is plastics and 'they' in E refers to plastics only.

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by aspirant2011 » Thu May 19, 2011 8:51 am
Frankenstein wrote:
HSPA wrote:Here the subject is "rate of dis-integration" not "plastics"

than it originally seemed is correct

In E it and they both are trying to point to rate of disintegarion. It is not a meaningful construction.
Hi,
I think the subject here is plastics and 'they' in E refers to plastics only.

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yup "they" is refering to the "plastics" and "plastics" is the subject
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