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sohrabkalra wrote:Visitors to the Rodin Museum have often examined the enormous sculpture The Gates of Hell and saw figures clawing at the gates, whose eyes and mouths gape like black holes in the universe.

A)saw figures clawing at the gates, whose eyes and mouths gape

B)saw figures clawing at the gates, whose eyes and mouths were gaping

C)saw figures clawing at the gates, with eyes and mounts gaping

D)seen figures who claw at the gates, their eyes and mouths gaping

E)seen figures clawing at the gates, whose eyes and mouths have gaped

Present Participle reqd - A/B/C out
D - issues (1) their could refer to Visitors & Figures; (2) who refering to figures - drop it
IMO E

patanjali.purpose wrote: E)seen figures clawing at the gates, whose eyes and mouths have gaped

Present Participle reqd - A/B/C out
D - issues (1) their could refer to Visitors & Figures; (2) who refering to figures - drop it
IMO E[/quote]

Ignore my question if it doesn't make sense. Going by your reason of eliminating D, option E is incorrect too because WHOSE could refer to Visitors or Figures. Isn't it?

neelgandham wrote:

patanjali.purpose wrote: E)seen figures clawing at the gates, whose eyes and mouths have gaped

Present Participle reqd - A/B/C out
D - issues (1) their could refer to Visitors & Figures; (2) who refering to figures - drop it
IMO E

Ignore my question if it doesn't make sense. Going by your reason of eliminating D, option E is incorrect too because WHOSE could refer to Visitors or Figures. Isn't it?

IMO WHOSE will refer to FIGURES only - as a rule, relative pronoun refer to closest noun

Now in

Visitors to the Rodin Museum have often examined the enormous sculpture The Gates of Hell and saw

because the tense in the first part is present perfect thus to maintain parallelism , the second part should have "SEEN"

Thus eliminate A,B,C

Between D and E the split is of "gaping/have gaped" and pronouns their/whose

In E, whose is ambiguous, it can refer to both gates and figures as IMO whose can refer to both things and people.

In D, the pronoun WHO makes it clear that its "the figures clawing at the gates" who have their eyes and mouths gaping, their is a personal pronoun , it refers to a particular person/thing !