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by saxenashobhit » Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:37 pm
Consumers may not think of household cleaning products to be hazardous substances, but many of them can be harmful to health, especially if they are used improperly.
(A) Consumers may not think of household cleaning products to be
(B) Consumers may not think of household cleaning products being
(C) A consumer may not think of their household cleaning products being
(D) A consumer may not think of household cleaning products as
(E) Household cleaning products may not be thought of, by consumers, as

OA - D

When reading non-underlined portion, I felt cleaning product should be subject to clearly help pronouns they and them. Can you help know why E is wrong and how D is good from pronoun part
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by Ashley@VeritasPrep » Wed Jun 29, 2011 7:59 pm
Hi there,

D is definitely fine as far as pronouns are concerned, because the pronouns "them" and "they" are both plural like "household cleaning products," whereas "a consumer" is singular, so there's no danger of the pronoun's being construed as referring to it.

E is not grammatically *wrong*, but stylistically, it ranks pretty low, because it's very awkward and wordy to use the passive voice here ("household cleaning products may not be thought of by consumers as...") when we could instead use the far more concise active voice ("consumers may not think of household products as...").

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by vikram4689 » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:05 pm
E is awkward and moreover non of the options use IDIOM- think of X as Y.
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by saxenashobhit » Wed Jun 29, 2011 8:31 pm
Ashley@VeritasPrep wrote:Hi there,

D is definitely fine as far as pronouns are concerned, because the pronouns "them" and "they" are both plural like "household cleaning products," whereas "a consumer" is singular, so there's no danger of the pronoun's being construed as referring to it.

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How come them and they is not confusing with "hazardous substances"
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by Ashley@VeritasPrep » Thu Jun 30, 2011 6:45 am
Please see these two threads and my posts in them -- you've had some company with that question :)
These should answer it, I think.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/antecedent-p ... 84640.html
https://www.beatthegmat.com/pronoun-ambi ... 85308.html
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by Sanjay2706 » Fri Jul 01, 2011 1:17 am
Yes I think D is right.
Good explanation too.
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by rishijhawar » Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:34 am
Hi, is 'idiom' a problem in A? to be instead of as?
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by tisrar02 » Tue Feb 05, 2013 12:28 pm
The official idiom is "To think of X AS Y. So yes, A does have an idiomatic issue.
rishijhawar wrote:Hi, is 'idiom' a problem in A? to be instead of as?
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