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by bpgen » Wed Mar 10, 2010 4:15 am
The Joneses are hoping that whomever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture was simply
thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.
(A) The Joneses are hoping that whomever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture was
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.
(B) The Joneses are hoping that whomever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture were
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.
(C) The Joneses' are hoping that whomever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture was
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy on which to munch.
(D) The Joneses are hoping that whoever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture was
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.
(E) The Joneses are hoping that whoever threw the toxic leaves into the pasture was
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.

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by beat_gmat_09 » Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:09 am
bpgen wrote:The Joneses are hoping that whomever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture was simply
thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.
(A) The Joneses are hoping that whomever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture was
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.
(B) The Joneses are hoping that whomever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture were
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.
(C) The Joneses' are hoping that whomever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture was
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy on which to munch.
(D) The Joneses are hoping that whoever threw the toxic leaves into their pasture was
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.
(E) The Joneses are hoping that whoever threw the toxic leaves into the pasture was
simply thinking the cows might like something green and leafy to munch on.

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What's the source ?
whoever and whomever have same meaning..
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by delhiboy1979 » Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:54 am
Should it not be E, 'their' in D is ambiguous.
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by girish3131 » Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:55 am
although THEIR is not ambiguous because there is only one PLURAL that is Joneses

STILL

diff b/w D AND E is so subtle that it's really difficult to figure out the correct one...


BUT thumb rule say.... remove pronoun as much as possible.....

So IMO E should be the correct one...

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