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champmag
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Contrary to the scholarly wisdom of the 1950's and early 1960's that predicted the processes of modernization and rationalization would gradually undermine it, ethnicity is a worldwide phenomenon of increasing importance.
(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it
I am having a problem with usage of 'it' as a pronoun before the adjective 'ethinicity'. If such constructions are valid then are they treated as exceptions to pronoun useage? Can an expert throw light on this.
answer after discussion..
(A) would gradually undermine it
(B) to be a gradual undermining of it
(C) would be a gradual undermining of ethnicity
(D) to gradually undermine ethnicity
(E) gradually undermining it
I am having a problem with usage of 'it' as a pronoun before the adjective 'ethinicity'. If such constructions are valid then are they treated as exceptions to pronoun useage? Can an expert throw light on this.
answer after discussion..
