B, E - no proper antecedent for pronoun 'their'
C - awkward
D - changes the meaning use of while is incorrect because both pain and low aesthetic benfits leads to depression

A is the best answer

I picked A and agree that A is the best answer.

The Q is a little bit weird to me though.

One that I can see is a parallelism pain is high and aesthetic benefits are temporarily low.

Who is recovering from the trauma of the operation? Body's tissues or the patient himself who has underwent surgery. The original sentence suggests that Body tissues are recovering from surgery as opposed to the patient himself

I see that B,C,D & E clearly miss this point in one way or the other. Is my thinking correct?

Also can Guru's tell me the appropriate use of while? When to use while and when not to

s_raizada wrote:B, E - no proper antecedent for pronoun 'their'
C - awkward
D - changes the meaning use of while is incorrect because both pain and low aesthetic benfits leads to depression

A is the best answer

Agreed

In B, 'their' points back to individuals. Whats the other possible antecedent?

ok. first i picked D. because of the word "while" while can mean "although" according to oxford dictionary.

well you have two contradictory statements here. pain is high and aesthetics benefits are low. so it would make sense to use while.


but then i looked at the second part of the sentence and i realized i made an error. answer choice a clarifies who is recovering from surgery (body's tissue). the other choices don't clarify that issue. as a result, the correct answer should be A.

Another question?

Will a person have trauma or the body's tissues have trauma after the operation?

I agree that the OA is A but I am still trying to make sense of the quality of question here.

hi netigen,

your question " Will a person have trauma or the body's tissues have trauma after the operation? "

after an operation, a person or the body's tissue can have trauma. However, in this sentence, the original sentence says that the body's tissues have trauma after the operation. we can't change the meaning of the original sentence so we have to stay with A. The other options obviously points to the patients experiencing the trauma and therefore it changes the original meaning of the sentence and cannot be correct.

Hi,
just adding to the query of netizen, 'their' in one of the options refers to pain which is not only incorrect use of pronoun but also changes the meaning of the original sentence.

Choice A is the best answer.

As I said before, this Q appears ambiguous. How ever, if we were to see such a Q on the exam (I don't think we will), we still have to go with the sentence that is grammatically correct and protects the original meaning of the sentence.

Stuart,

Is it possible that GMAT SC questions expect us to modify the sentence in such a way that is in line with the normal world?

For example, Most people would say the patient experiences trauma and not the tissues? Should we get into the business of debating whether tissues can experience trauma or not?