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by clammiestqasar » Sat Sep 25, 2010 8:52 pm
With her archaeologist husband, travels inspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie; travelers to Egypt can still stay at the Old Cataract Hotel, the model for the hotel in one of Christie's most famous books.

a. With her archaeologist husband, travels inspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie

b. Agatha Christie used her travels with her archaeologist husband to inspire several mystery novels

c. Because her husband was an archaeologist, Agatha Christie was able to use their travels as inspiration for several of her mystery novels

d. Together with her archaeologist husband, Agatha Christie was inspired to incorporate their travel into several of her mystery novels

e. Agatha Christie's travels with her archaeologist husband served as inspiration for several of her mystery novels

OA is E.Manhattan Question.
My doubt is dont we need an antecedent for her?
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by thevoid » Sun Sep 26, 2010 1:37 am
clammiestqasar wrote:With her archaeologist husband, travels inspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie; travelers to Egypt can still stay at the Old Cataract Hotel, the model for the hotel in one of Christie's most famous books.

a. With her archaeologist husband, travels inspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie

b. Agatha Christie used her travels with her archaeologist husband to inspire several mystery novels

c. Because her husband was an archaeologist, Agatha Christie was able to use their travels as inspiration for several of her mystery novels

d. Together with her archaeologist husband, Agatha Christie was inspired to incorporate their travel into several of her mystery novels

e. Agatha Christie's travels with her archaeologist husband served as inspiration for several of her mystery novels

OA is E.Manhattan Question.
My doubt is dont we need an antecedent for her?
See here in E - the subject uses form of possessive noun - agatha christie's travels,and her used here is also a possessive form,her husband, ie. {agatha christie's husband } hence we dont need an antecedent for "her"
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Sep 26, 2010 8:42 pm
clammiestqasar wrote:With her archaeologist husband, travels inspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie; travelers to Egypt can still stay at the Old Cataract Hotel, the model for the hotel in one of Christie's most famous books.

a. With her archaeologist husband, travels inspired several mystery novels by Agatha Christie

b. Agatha Christie used her travels with her archaeologist husband to inspire several mystery novels

c. Because her husband was an archaeologist, Agatha Christie was able to use their travels as inspiration for several of her mystery novels

d. Together with her archaeologist husband, Agatha Christie was inspired to incorporate their travel into several of her mystery novels

e. Agatha Christie's travels with her archaeologist husband served as inspiration for several of her mystery novels

OA is E.Manhattan Question.
My doubt is dont we need an antecedent for her?
Antecedents don't have to be the subject of the sentence to have pronouns replacing them later in the sentence. In choice E, Agatha Christie is clearly the antecedent for her. In fact, the antecedent doesn't even have to come before the pronoun (even though antecedent means "thing coming before"); you can say With her car in the shop, Amy had no choice but to walk to work. If there were no other female in context, her would have to mean Amy.
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