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pradeepkaushal9518: Legendary Member; Posts: 1309; Joined: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:41 pmFollowed by: 5 members; Thanked: 33 times

by pradeepkaushal9518 » Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:04 am

To cut costs, the owner of a restaurant has proposed using artificial ingredients to make some of the more expensive vegetarian dishes; the question is whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegeterian dishes after their ingredients are changed.

(A) whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes after their ingredients are

(B) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat one once their ingredients are

(C) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(D) if customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(E) if customers will continue to pay more money to eat one after the entrees' ingredients have been

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by sirisha.g » Thu Aug 26, 2010 2:15 am

IMO C.
2/3 split between whether and if. whether has to be used hence D and E are out.

another split among the remaining options is the use of "and" and "to"
to has to be used hence A is out.

i chose C.

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by mundasingh123 » Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:07 am

pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:To cut costs, the owner of a restaurant has proposed using artificial ingredients to make some of the more expensive vegetarian dishes; the question is whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegeterian dishes after their ingredients are changed.

(A) whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes after their ingredients are

(B) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat one once their ingredients are

(C) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(D) if customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(E) if customers will continue to pay more money to eat one after the entrees' ingredients have been

This question concentrates on pronoun error.As has already been explained ,whether is preferred to if,so D and E are out,the only choice that is left without the pronoun error is C

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by abhigang » Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:21 am

pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:To cut costs, the owner of a restaurant has proposed using artificial ingredients to make some of the more expensive vegetarian dishes; the question is whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegeterian dishes after their ingredients are changed.

(A) whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes after their ingredients are

(B) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat one once their ingredients are

(C) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(D) if customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(E) if customers will continue to pay more money to eat one after the entrees' ingredients have been

IMO A.
The underlined portion is parallel as well as "their" refers clearly to the veg dishes. How will it sound if we are to replace "their" with "customer's". It will read like "customer's ingredients"

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Hence , IMO "their" is unambiguous and refers clearly to "veg dishes".

Please correct me if I am wrong.

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by mundasingh123 » Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:33 am

abhigang wrote:
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:To cut costs, the owner of a restaurant has proposed using artificial ingredients to make some of the more expensive vegetarian dishes; the question is whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegeterian dishes after their ingredients are changed.

(A) whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes after their ingredients are

(B) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat one once their ingredients are

(C) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(D) if customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(E) if customers will continue to pay more money to eat one after the entrees' ingredients have been
IMO A.
The underlined portion is parallel as well as "their" refers clearly to the veg dishes. How will it sound if we are to replace "their" with "customer's". It will read like "customer's ingredients" .
Hence , IMO "their" is unambiguous and refers clearly to "veg dishes".

Please correct me if I am wrong.

Experts have advised to throw out logic whenit comes to pronoun errors

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mundasingh123: Legendary Member; Posts: 2330; Joined: Fri Jan 15, 2010 5:14 amFollowed by: 26 members; Thanked: 56 times

by mundasingh123 » Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:34 am

whats the OA?

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by blaster » Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:37 am

one more vote for C

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by scorpionz » Thu Aug 26, 2010 5:10 am

IMO: C

OA Plz???

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by ankurmit » Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:06 pm

IMO C

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by reply2spg » Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:12 pm

This is similar with one of the OG questions. OG question about rhinosorous and C is correct here. A breaks the ||ism

Sudhanshu
(have lot of things to learn from all of you)

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by adi_800 » Thu Aug 26, 2010 8:14 pm

reply2spg wrote:This is similar with one of the OG questions. OG question about rhinosorous and C is correct here. A breaks the ||ism

Change the subject and verb and you have a new sentence correction problem...
That's the order of the day...

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by hi.itz.mani » Thu Aug 26, 2010 10:40 pm

mundasingh123 wrote:
abhigang wrote:
pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:To cut costs, the owner of a restaurant has proposed using artificial ingredients to make some of the more expensive vegetarian dishes; the question is whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegeterian dishes after their ingredients are changed.

(A) whether customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes after their ingredients are

(B) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat one once their ingredients are

(C) whether customers will continue to pay more money to eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(D) if customers will continue to pay more money and eat the vegetarian dishes once the entrees' ingredients have been

(E) if customers will continue to pay more money to eat one after the entrees' ingredients have been
IMO A.
The underlined portion is parallel as well as "their" refers clearly to the veg dishes. How will it sound if we are to replace "their" with "customer's". It will read like "customer's ingredients" .
Hence , IMO "their" is unambiguous and refers clearly to "veg dishes".

Please correct me if I am wrong.
Experts have advised to throw out logic whenit comes to pronoun errors

I hope with "throwing out the logic" you meant use also a bit of logic before completely negating an answer having ambiguous antecedent because sometimes we can find the antecedent based on logic.
Which you have correctly cited here.

But at the same time, we should also look for better options and if it's available .... We should use it. In this case C clearly and out rightly removes the little bit of ambiguity of "their" (which forced us to use the "LOGIC")

Hence IMO C

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