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by jain2016 » Wed Jan 06, 2016 10:10 am
Be it for losing weight, improving muscle tone, or to widen their social circle, Americans are flocking to gyms like never before.

A) Be it for losing weight, improving muscle tone, or to widen their social circle,

B) Be it to losing weight, improve muscle tone, or widen their social circle,

C) Be it for losing weight, improving muscle tone, or for widening their social circle,

D) Be it losing weight, improving muscle tone, or widening their social circle,

E) Be it to lose weight, improve muscle tone, or to widen their social circle,

OAB

Hi Experts ,

In OA IT and THEIR refer to what? And what is wrong with option D

Please advise.

Many thanks in advance.

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by jain2016 » Thu Jan 07, 2016 8:56 am
Hi Experts ,

Please shed some light on this.

Many thanks in advance.

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by Amrabdelnaby » Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:49 pm
I'm surprised that it is b. it defies the rules of parallelism!
I also thought its d actually?
R u sure abt the OA?
jain2016 wrote:Be it for losing weight, improving muscle tone, or to widen their social circle, Americans are flocking to gyms like never before.

A) Be it for losing weight, improving muscle tone, or to widen their social circle,

B) Be it to losing weight, improve muscle tone, or widen their social circle,

C) Be it for losing weight, improving muscle tone, or for widening their social circle,

D) Be it losing weight, improving muscle tone, or widening their social circle,

E) Be it to lose weight, improve muscle tone, or to widen their social circle,

OAB

Hi Experts ,

In OA IT and THEIR refer to what? And what is wrong with option D

Please advise.

Many thanks in advance.

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by GMATGuruNY » Sat Jan 09, 2016 3:34 am
When an introductory modifier in an answer choice includes a pronoun without an antecedent, the referent should be the SUBJECT OF THE FOLLOWING CLAUSE.
Consider the following examples from the OG12:

Q7: As ITS sales of computer products have surpassed those of measuring instruments, THE COMPANY...
Q28: Building on civilizations that preceded THEM in coastal Peru, THE MOCHICA...
Q31: Even though many of HER colleagues were convinced that genes were relatively simple and static, BARBARA MCCLINTOCK...

In each case, the introductory modifier includes a pronoun without an antecedent.
In each case, the referent is the subject of the following clause.
jain2016 wrote:Be it for losing weight, improving muscle tone, or to widen their social circle, Americans are flocking to gyms like never before.

A) Be it for losing weight, improving muscle tone, or to widen their social circle,

B) Be it to losing weight, improve muscle tone, or widen their social circle,

C) Be it for losing weight, improving muscle tone, or for widening their social circle,

D) Be it losing weight, improving muscle tone, or widening their social circle,

E) Be it to lose weight, improve muscle tone, or to widen their social circle,

OAB

Hi Experts ,

In OA IT and THEIR refer to what? And what is wrong with option D

Please advise.

Many thanks in advance.

SJ
In this SC, their (an introductory pronoun without an antecedent) correctly refers to Americans (the subject of the following clause).
However, it lacks a clear referent, rendering all of the answer choices incorrect.
I would ignore this SC.
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