SC:"subject reference" concern

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child: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 16; Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:48 am

by child » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:38 am

Hi,

Sentence 1.The school has a beautiful park and it has colourful flowers.

Sentence 2.The school has a beautiful park,which has colourful flowers.

Please confirm whether my understandig is correct or not.

Sentence 1:"It" refers to school and not the park.
Sentence 2:"which" refers to park and not the School.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks
SB

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camitava: Legendary Member; Posts: 645; Joined: Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:37 amFollowed by: 5 members; Location: India; Thanked: 34 times

Re: SC:"subject reference" concern

by camitava » Sun Mar 16, 2008 8:47 am

child wrote:Hi,

Sentence 1.The school has a beautiful park and it has colourful flowers.

Sentence 2.The school has a beautiful park,which has colourful flowers.

Please confirm whether my understandig is correct or not.

Sentence 1:"It" refers to school and not the park.
Sentence 2:"which" refers to park and not the School.

Any help is highly appreciated.

Thanks
SB

SB, according to the 1st sentence, it can refer to both the park and the school. Whom to refer is not very clear to us. This type of unclear reference is not desired in GMAT.
Now according to the 2nd sentence, which clearly refers to the park. This is preferred to 1st sentence in GMAT.

Correct me If I am wrong

Regards,

Amitava

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child: Junior | Next Rank: 30 Posts; Posts: 16; Joined: Sat Feb 09, 2008 6:48 am

Re: SC:"subject reference" concern

by child » Sun Mar 16, 2008 9:12 am

Thats what my concern is.... gramatically which is correct ?..the pronoum after conjunction should refer to the subject or not?? and the subject is the
"School"

please clarify

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camitava: Legendary Member; Posts: 645; Joined: Wed Sep 05, 2007 4:37 amFollowed by: 5 members; Location: India; Thanked: 34 times

Re: SC:"subject reference" concern

by camitava » Sun Mar 16, 2008 10:06 am

child wrote:Thats what my concern is.... gramatically which is correct ?..the pronoum after conjunction should refer to the subject or not?? and the subject is the
"School"

please clarify

As I mentioned in my last post, the second sentence is grammatically correct in GMAT but not the first one. Got me, SB? By the way, in the second sentence, which is referring to the park not to the school. Is it clear to u, now? In the two sentences (first one is not correct at all), which or it is not referring to school.

Correct me If I am wrong

Regards,

Amitava

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yxhh2008: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 36; Joined: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:12 pm

by yxhh2008 » Mon Mar 17, 2008 7:02 am

agree with camitava.I do not know any grammar rules talking about that a pronoum after conjunction should refer to the subject

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