moneyman wrote:PLs explain

lunarpower wrote:

In ancient Thailand, much of the local artisans’ creative energy was expended for the creation of Buddha images and when they constructed and decorated the temples that enshrined them.
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B. much of the local artisans’ creative energy was expended on the creation of Buddha images and on construction and decoration of the temples in which they were enshrined

incidentally, this is not a well-written problem; it has 2 issues that wouldn't pass muster on an official test. viz.:

1) 'they' is technically ambiguous (although easy to resolve with 'common sense'), a situation that the gmat would not tolerate. on the gmat, 'they' would undoubtedly be replaced by 'those images'.

2) in order to maintain parallelism (about which the gmat is downright religious in its zeal), you'd want to insert the between 'on' and 'construction'.

dmateer25 wrote:I just read the same post.

I agree that B has issues and "they" is ambiguous. However, of the choices I feel B is the best available.

I did not find abut this pronoun error in your explanations...and there are other issues as well which Ron mentioned

I am surprised this question was on gmat prep.

same here

Iamcste, you did mention that you thought "which" was an incorrect modifier in choice B.

You can use "in which" to introduce a relative clause after a noun that refers to a place or time.

Can you provide more info or source on this

dmateer25 wrote:Here is the source:

https://www.uhv.edu/ac/student/writing/g ... 07.13.html

For the test, you can generally think of it as: use "in which" when you want to use "where" but it's not a physical location or "when" but it's not a time.

"in" is a preposition - you can put lots of different prepositions before which. So you use "in" when you mean either literally or metaphorically located within, or a part of.

"which" is a relative pronoun, so you use it to refer to some other noun elsewhere in the sentence.

dmateer25 wrote:

For the test, you can generally think of it as: use "in which" when you want to use "where" but it's not a physical location or "when" but it's not a time.

"in" is a preposition - you can put lots of different prepositions before which. So you use "in" when you mean either literally or metaphorically located within, or a part of.

"which" is a relative pronoun, so you use it to refer to some other noun elsewhere in the sentence.

That is a quote by Stacey Koprince on the MGMAT forums.