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by nikhilgupta » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:25 am
Among the objects found in the excavated temple were small terra-cotta effigies left by supplicants who were either asking the goddess Bona Dea's aid in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help.
(A) in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help
(B) in healing physical and mental ills and to thank her for helping
(C) in healing physical and mental ills, and thanking her for helping
(D) to heal physical and mental ills or to thank her for such help
(E) to heal physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help


my question is: what is antecedent of her?
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by avik.ch » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:52 am
nikhilgupta wrote:


my question is: what is antecedent of her?
goddess bona dea.
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by GmatKiss » Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:53 am
nikhilgupta wrote:Among the objects found in the excavated temple were small terra-cotta effigies left by supplicants who were eitherasking the goddess Bona Dea's aid in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help.

(A) in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help
(B) in healing physical and mental ills and to thank her for helping
(C) in healing physical and mental ills, and thanking her for helping
(D) to heal physical and mental ills or to thank her for such help
(E) to heal physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help

IMO: A

HER - GODDESS


my question is: what is antecedent of her?
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by killer1387 » Wed Mar 07, 2012 9:20 pm
nikhilgupta wrote:Among the objects found in the excavated temple were small terra-cotta effigies left by supplicants who were either asking the goddess Bona Dea's aid in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help.
(A) in healing physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help
(B) in healing physical and mental ills and to thank her for helping
(C) in healing physical and mental ills, and thanking her for helping
(D) to heal physical and mental ills or to thank her for such help
(E) to heal physical and mental ills or thanking her for such help


my question is: what is antecedent of her?
IMO A.
"Her" is in every option so u shouldn't be worried about that.
Anyways "her refers to goddess Bona Dea"
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by nikhilgupta » Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:40 pm
we do not have any noun as goddess bona dea rather we have goddess bona dea's aid
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by killer1387 » Thu Mar 08, 2012 10:55 pm
nikhilgupta wrote:we do not have any noun as goddess bona dea rather we have goddess bona dea's aid
"her" is a possessive pronoun and can correctly refer to "goddess bona dea" in the possessive form "goddess bona dea's"
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by avik.ch » Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:00 pm
nikhilgupta wrote:we do not have any noun as goddess bona dea rather we have goddess bona dea's aid
Yes, I got what you are trying to say.

here Goddess bona de's aid --

goddess bona de - adjective
aid - noun

But how can a pronoun refer to an adjective ?

Refer this link for more analysis :
https://www.whiterose.org/dr.elmo/blog/a ... 03548.html
https://www.cjr.org/resources/lc/posnoun.php

And on how this is applicable for GMAT : https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/aga ... t9229.html


Hope this helps !!
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by jzw » Fri Mar 09, 2012 5:11 pm
can someone explain why it's "in healing" and not "to heal" ?

i understand that it's "either asking or thanking" - but does one as for help "in healing" or does one ask for help "to be healed"?
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by sam2304 » Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:41 pm
jzw wrote:can someone explain why it's "in healing" and not "to heal" ?

i understand that it's "either asking or thanking" - but does one as for help "in healing" or does one ask for help "to be healed"?
'Aid to heal' is unidiomatic.

'aid to heal' seems that they are asking the goddess to solve their problem without any particular effort on their own part, where as 'aid in healing' is that they are asking the goddess for assistance to supplement their own efforts to solve their problem.
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by jzw » Fri Mar 09, 2012 6:42 pm
got it, thanks!
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by avik.ch » Fri Mar 09, 2012 7:25 pm
jzw wrote:can someone explain why it's "in healing" and not "to heal" ?

i understand that it's "either asking or thanking" - but does one as for help "in healing" or does one ask for help "to be healed"?

refer this : https://www.beatthegmat.com/aid-to-vs-ai ... tml#449291
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by vikram4689 » Tue Jul 17, 2012 2:12 am
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