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The company is negotiating

by limestone » Mon Oct 04, 2010 1:30 am
The company is negotiating to sell its profitable credit card subsidiary, which it plans to use money from to acquire some of the mortgage-servicing operations that are being sold by troubled savings institutions.

A.
B. subsidiary, from which it plans to use the money
C. subsidiary, and it plans the use of money from that
D. subsidiary and plans to use money from that sale
E. subsidiary and plans the use of money from that sale

[spoiler]OA is D. Why B is incorrect?[/spoiler]
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by shovan85 » Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:34 am
This is what I feel about B. Suggestions Opinions always welcome.


A: "Which" refers to credit card subsidiary
B: the pronoun "it" has two antecedent creating ambiguity. It can refer back to Company or credit card subsidiary.
Also "from which" what does this mean? If the sentence would have said something about the money then we could have assumed the from which is referring to the money achieved after the sell.
C: the pronoun "it" has two antecedent creating ambiguity. It can refer back to Company or credit card subsidiary.
D: company plans to use
E: the use of money is wordy.
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by mundasingh123 » Mon Oct 04, 2010 2:43 am
shovan85 wrote:This is what I feel about B. Suggestions Opinions always welcome.


A: "Which" refers to credit card subsidiary
B: the pronoun "it" has two antecedent creating ambiguity. It can refer back to Company or credit card subsidiary.
Also "from which" what does this mean? If the sentence would have said something about the money then we could have assumed the from which is referring to the money achieved after the sell.
C: the pronoun "it" has two antecedent creating ambiguity. It can refer back to Company or credit card subsidiary.
D: company plans to use
E: the use of money is wordy.
In B,the from which begins a modifer which modifies the subsidiary so " it " can only refer to company
B is eliminated because the of the "that " and missing " sale"
C) The subject of the preceding clause is the subject of the parallel clause It refers to company
My doubt is "why we dont have "the" before "money" in D
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