Hi all,
I need some expert grammar help. Hoping to get it here.
issue 1) Consider the below sentence structure.
Noun1 Verb1 Noun2, Verb2 blah blah blah.
I am not sure who performs the action verb2. Is there a specific rule for this? Does it depend on the roles of the nouns (subject/object) in the first part of the sentence? Do we have to logically decide who performs the verb2 action?
Eg: The historic buildings in London were long ignored by tourists, traveling instead to newer attractions in the Capital City.
who travels here? The building, or the tourists? (Logically its tourists, I want to know syntactically who performs the traveling action ). If I use a relative pronoun before "traveling", I know it unambiguously point to the previous noun, which is the tourists.
Issue 2) I would like to know how important the pronoun ambiguity error (having more than one antecedent to be precise, but logically clear) is in GMAT SC.
if the options are the ones given below, which one should I prefer?
Q) The new government requires employers to inform an employee of their legal right to holidays and overtime pay.
a) employers to inform an employee of their
c) employers to inform employees that he has a
d) employers to inform employees that there is a
e) that employers inform an employee of their
f) that employers inform the employees that they have a
Here option D is the one without a pronoun/noun error, but doesn't state that "employees have right", and is hence less emphatic to the extend that it changes the original meaning. To me option F sounds Intuitively better than the rest. Would like to hear your thoughts.
I need some expert grammar help. Hoping to get it here.
issue 1) Consider the below sentence structure.
Noun1 Verb1 Noun2, Verb2 blah blah blah.
I am not sure who performs the action verb2. Is there a specific rule for this? Does it depend on the roles of the nouns (subject/object) in the first part of the sentence? Do we have to logically decide who performs the verb2 action?
Eg: The historic buildings in London were long ignored by tourists, traveling instead to newer attractions in the Capital City.
who travels here? The building, or the tourists? (Logically its tourists, I want to know syntactically who performs the traveling action ). If I use a relative pronoun before "traveling", I know it unambiguously point to the previous noun, which is the tourists.
Issue 2) I would like to know how important the pronoun ambiguity error (having more than one antecedent to be precise, but logically clear) is in GMAT SC.
if the options are the ones given below, which one should I prefer?
Q) The new government requires employers to inform an employee of their legal right to holidays and overtime pay.
a) employers to inform an employee of their
c) employers to inform employees that he has a
d) employers to inform employees that there is a
e) that employers inform an employee of their
f) that employers inform the employees that they have a
Here option D is the one without a pronoun/noun error, but doesn't state that "employees have right", and is hence less emphatic to the extend that it changes the original meaning. To me option F sounds Intuitively better than the rest. Would like to hear your thoughts.
