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by thestartupguy » Thu Jun 21, 2012 12:24 am
Chinn_asama wrote:Hi

In the sentence, If the person if able to pay $40,000 how can you call her/she (?)economicaly weak, what is the right pronoun? what is the subject in the dependent clause?

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It's definitely her.
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by KapTeacherEli » Thu Jun 21, 2012 10:55 am
"her" is correct, because "her" is the object and "you" is the subject. However, don't worry too much about this particular grammar point; the GMAT tests it rarely, if at all!

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