GMAT Prep SC - Need your inputs

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GMAT Prep SC - Need your inputs

by siddus » Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:10 am
The 151 member governments of the World Bank are expected to increase the bank's funding by $175 billion, though some United States legislators cite an obstacle to congressional passage being the concern that the bank's loans will help foreign producers compete with American businesses.

A. an obstacle to congressional passage being the concern
B. a concern as an obstacle to congressional passage
C. as an obstacle to congressional passage the concern
D. the concern, an obstacle to congressional passage
E. as an obstacle for Congress to pass it the concern

OA is C

I brought it down to the OA and E but I cant figure out what is wrong with E. Isn't the pronoun 'it' is referring to the bank's funding? I read elsewhere that the pronoun doesn't refer to anything in particular. In the OA, the 'congressional passage' must refer to something.. can it just hang in there without an object? That's the reason I picked E.

SC experts on the forum - please enlighten me on this one!

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by siddus » Tue Aug 03, 2010 12:55 am
Sorry but I have already seen Ron's explanation. It doesn't clearly specify why 'it' is incorrect in option E.

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by kvcpk » Tue Aug 03, 2010 1:24 am
siddus wrote:Sorry but I have already seen Ron's explanation. It doesn't clearly specify why 'it' is incorrect in option E.
Here is what Ron said about "it" in option E.
the problem with (e) is "it". it's not ambiguous, though; it actually doesn't refer to anything at all. there's no noun in there, anywhere, to which "it" can refer.
("Ambiguous", in reference to pronouns, is used to refer to a pronoun that has 2 or more possible antecedents, not to refer to a noun that has no possible antecedent.)
Hope this helps!!

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by siddus » Tue Aug 03, 2010 2:13 am
@kvcpk - I have explicitly mentioned that I have gone through Ron's explanation and have not understood it. You are not helping me by quoting that discussion several times.

I feel the pronoun in E is in fact referring to a noun - 'the bank's funding'. So I am not sure what Ron meant in his post. I hope that makes more sense.

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