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by lunarpower » Mon Oct 14, 2013 10:18 pm
sana.noor wrote:Thanks Ron!
is my reasoning about wrong choices right?
Ha, I didn't even notice that you wrote things.
Next time, use quotes. Or colors. Or put your responses in boldface. Or ... something.

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Mostly very good.

* There's no problem with "them" in (b). (It works in the same way as "their" in the correct answer.)

* In (c) and (d) -- in addition to the stuff you found -- "its" is also wrong, because "monkfish" is plural here. (If it were singular, it would have "the" in front of it.)

Otherwise all good.
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by sana.noor » Mon Oct 14, 2013 11:16 pm
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by ngalinh » Tue Oct 15, 2013 2:25 pm
lunarpower wrote:
Two things here:
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To summarize... You thought of one interpretation that works, and another that doesn't.
To that I say:
Ok, you found an interpretation that works! Where's the problem? Just ignore the interpretation that doesn't work.

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In this context, there's no doubt that "monkfish" is plural. If you don't understand why, just replace it with something like "shark(s)".
There are no limits on the size of shark that can be caught. --> Nope.
There are no limits on the size of sharks that can be caught. --> Yep.
It's "sharks". Not "shark". So "monkfish" here is like "sharks".

Thanks for your generosity in giving credit for a half of my thought. But I think both interpretations of mine didn't work. Your examples remind me about the context: yes, only the plural of monkfish makes sense here. I thought about the word without context, so different perspectives appeared.
"monkfish" is plural here. (If it were singular, it would have "the" in front of it.)
yeah, this simple technique is useful. No over-thingking!
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