The biggest economic advancement that U.S. and South Korea have attempted - a free trade agreement signed in April 2007 - hasn't been completed because it awaits ratification by its respective lawmakers.
a) it , its
b) they, their
c) it , their
d) they, its
Please explain your answers.
Economic advancement - pronoun agreement
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First underlined portions refers to U.S & South Korea---Hence it should be theysuchoudh wrote:The biggest economic advancement that U.S. and South Korea have attempted - a free trade agreement signed in April 2007 - hasn't been completed because it awaits ratification by its respective lawmakers.
a) it , its
b) they, their
c) it , their
d) they, its
Please explain your answers.
The second underlined portion refers to their lawmakers----Hence it should be their
Further , another reason we can't use 'it' here is that it can refer to agreement in that case
IMO : B
What's the OA & source?
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I got it..nice questionsuchoudh wrote:Sorry it is not B.prachich1987 wrote: IMO : B
Here it refers to the advancement & not to the countries
It has to be C
Please advise the OA
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Answer is C
The biggest economic advancement that U.S. and South Korea have attempted - a free trade agreement signed in April 2007 - hasn't been completed because it awaits ratification by its respective lawmakers.
It - represent "a free trade agreement" (Singular)
their - represent lawmaker from both from US and South Korea (Plural)
"Its" is a singular verb from
The biggest economic advancement that U.S. and South Korea have attempted - a free trade agreement signed in April 2007 - hasn't been completed because it awaits ratification by its respective lawmakers.
It - represent "a free trade agreement" (Singular)
their - represent lawmaker from both from US and South Korea (Plural)
"Its" is a singular verb from
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The biggest economic advancement that U.S. and South Korea have attempted - a free trade agreement signed in April 2007 - hasn't been completed because it awaits ratification by its respective lawmakers.
a) it , its
b) they, their
c) it , their
d) they, its
the sentence says it awaits .... they awaits is not correct hence we can rule out B and D
now the second one "its" ... read the sentence's last part again "its respective lawmakers" ..the word respective tells us that its plural .. hence "they" must be used ...the option that satisfies both is C
IMO C
a) it , its
b) they, their
c) it , their
d) they, its
the sentence says it awaits .... they awaits is not correct hence we can rule out B and D
now the second one "its" ... read the sentence's last part again "its respective lawmakers" ..the word respective tells us that its plural .. hence "they" must be used ...the option that satisfies both is C
IMO C
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Ok, please answer which of these sentences is correct?
The dam is operated jointly by three nations; the decision to release more water has to be taken by the dam's operators.
OR
The dam is operated jointly by three nations; the decision to release more water has to be taken by the nations' operators.
I think it is the former that is correct. Similarly with the original question, I think the sentence as it stands is correct.
The dam is operated jointly by three nations; the decision to release more water has to be taken by the dam's operators.
OR
The dam is operated jointly by three nations; the decision to release more water has to be taken by the nations' operators.
I think it is the former that is correct. Similarly with the original question, I think the sentence as it stands is correct.
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Thanks Tani.Tani Wolff - Kaplan wrote:THe advancement is awaiting ratification - not the lawmakers. Therefore A
This clears the doubts about the first blank space.
what about the second blank space?
why its lawmakers & not their lawmakers
How can an advancement have lawmakers?
I always face difficulties while using verbs for non-living things.
Is the below statement correct
"A Private message has arrived" Can we make such statements message being a non-living thing?
Please help.