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by grockit_andrea » Mon Apr 26, 2010 10:57 am
On the GMAT, a modifier is presumed to modify the word to which it's closest. Here, that's "Jim," so the modifying phrase that begins with "who" is describing Jim. I think that would be pretty standard for relative pronouns introducing modifying phrases, but I can't say that will ALWAYS be the case. I can imagine some scenarios in which a relative pronoun could be more ambiguous, but I can't recall ever eliminating an answer choice because of an ambiguous relative pronoun.
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