A is correct....
C was confusing option.....

A) This is the least wordiest while being gramatically corrent.
B) "that contrinbutes to depleting them because"- too wordy, unnecessary pronoun "them". "that contrinbute to their depletion" would have sounded much better.
C) "but not for monkfish" just isn't right. plush, "which contrinbutes to its depletin through overfishing" must refer to monkfish, but we know it's not supposed to.
D) cod and haddock is being compared to legal size limits.
E) "because they are overfished".. too wordy, we don't need that pronoun.

I fully understand that A is the right option.

But had a slight doubt on the construction of "There are....". I have read somewhere that sentences start with "There is/are..." are examples of the inverted sentence with the object coming first and subject coming after verb.????

Can anyone throw some light on this Inverted sentence construction???

A - There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing. - their is wrong is this as it refers to monkfish which s singular
C - There are legal limits on the size of cod and haddock that can be caught, but not for monkfish, which contributes to its depletion through overfishing. - Its has been properly used and i think here which will refer to caught

cbenk121 wrote:There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing.

(A) There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing.
(B) There are no legal limits on the size of monkfish that can be caught, unlike cod or haddock, a circumstance that contributes to depleting them because they are being overfished.
(C) There are legal limits on the size of cod and haddock that can be caught, but not for monkfish, which contributes to its depletion through overfishing.
(D) Unlike cod and haddock, there are no legal size limits on catching monkfish, which contributes to its depletion by being overfished.
(E) Unlike catching cod and haddock, there are no legal size limits on catching monkfish, contributing to their depletion because they are overfished.

OA: A

I chose A as an answer for this question.
The other choices are not correct because they compare 'cod and haddock' with legal size limits on catching..'

I also went for A

I also went for A

I also went for A

How is A the correct answer choice?
What is the antecedent of "their" in option A?

Hello!

The antecedent for "their" in answer choice A is "monkfish".

Remember that the word "fish" and different types of fish have the same word for singular and plural:
monkfish cab be singular and plural depending on the context.

Here it is plural, because if it were singular, it would take the definite article "the".

Here's an excerpt from a language forum discussion (https://forum.wordreference.com/showthre ... le+species):

"If a group of objects is represented by one object of their class, this singular countable noun takes the definite article the. Its meaning is a notion representing a class of objects, not the only object or specific object. This function is called the generic function of the definite article. The definite article "the" in this function is used only with a singular noun, mostly with the names of animal species, plants, inventions, instruments, and some others."

And some examples from the same source:

The cheetah is the fastest land animal, and the giraffe is the tallest.
The snowy owl is white the year round.
The pine grows well in many regions of the world.
The rose needs rich soil.
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There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing.

(A) There are no legal limits, as there are for cod and haddock, on the size of monkfish that can be caught, a circumstance that contributes to their depletion through overfishing.
(B) There are no legal limits on the size of monkfish that can be caught, unlike cod or haddock, a circumstance that contributes to depleting them because they are being overfished.
(C) There are legal limits on the size of cod and haddock that can be caught, but not for monkfish, which contributes to its depletion through overfishing.
(D) Unlike cod and haddock, there are no legal size limits on catching monkfish, which contributes to its depletion by being overfished.
(E) Unlike catching cod and haddock, there are no legal size limits on catching monkfish, contributing to their depletion because they are overfished.

A

Earlier I decided on E
E) Unlike catching cod and haddock, there are no legal size limits on catching monkfish, contributing to their depletion because they are overfished.


But then realized that catching cod is not parallel with legal size limits.

I will go with A

option a