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by mehrasa » Wed Oct 12, 2011 2:25 am
While depressed property values can hurt some large investors,they are potentially devastating for homeowners,whose equity-in many cases representing a life's savings- can plunge or even disappear.

A. same
B. they can potentially devastate homeowners in that their
C. for homeowners they are potentially devastating,because their
D. for homeowners,it is potentially devastating in that their
E. it can potentially devastate homeowners,whose


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by sam2304 » Wed Oct 12, 2011 3:54 am
Eliminate D, E - uses singular 'it' for property values.

C uses 'they' and 'their' can refer to homeowners or 'they' which causes ambiguity in pronoun reference.
Multiple usage of pronoun should have same antecedent.
B also have the same ambiguity with the usage of 'they' and 'their' moreover 'in that their' - looks awkward
whereas A is more clear with 'which'. One more issue is X is devastating for Y is changed to X can devastate Y - Not sure though but it creates some sort of uncertainty to me

IMO A
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by GmatKiss » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:09 am
IMO: A

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by mankey » Wed Oct 12, 2011 9:18 am
Please provide OA.

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