excellent .I appreciate to you. Last day I bought manhattan prep strategy guide and OG BUT which part will I firstly start ?Can you suggest me specially in English.?
A little note that only further demonstrates my frustration with the 'squishiness' of pronouns. Around the 23:30 mark I talk about replacing a possessive noun (building's) with a non possessive pronoun (it). At one point this was not allowed, and it is still maybe not *ideal*, but there have been OG questions in which the right answer *does this very thing*. So my tip would be: if you see a non-possessive pronoun replacing a possessive noun, note it, but don't eliminate that answer for it. Try to eliminate answers for other reasons, and use this only as a tie-breaker (this being the same advice I give for the "I don't know why it's wrong, but it sounds bad" answer choices in SC). Also a note on the 'because' idea regarding 'comma,--ing' modifiers at the end, there: you can also put the 'because' on the *first* part of the sentence. "The ingredients to the soda were replaced with a significantly cheaper alternative, drastically changing its taste so that it was unrecognizable as the same brand." Can be thought of as "[Because] the ingredients were replaced..., the taste drastically changed..."
@ReedArnold At 24:08, In the second sentence - Because the dolphin displays several behaviours that indicate self awareness ... many people think they should be considered non-human persons. I think this sentence is also the case of absent antecedent because 'they' in the above sentence should point to 'the dolphin' which is singular. Hence, this sentence is errorneous right?
@@anushikagupta8379 It is wrong, but it's not usually what we would call a 'missing antecedent.' The antecedent is there (the dolphin), it just doesn't agree with the pronoun in number. A missing antecedent is something like: "The fossil that they found in Indonesia showed that the species survived in many different climates." There is no antecedent for 'they.'
Can a pronoun refer to a noun in a prepositional phrase? The number of stars in the universe (stars is in the prepositional phrase) We want to quantify how many stars there are? if we want to find out the number of stars then I am still not sure why we can't write the sentence with them?
Hey Marc, I've tried to reply to your questions here a few times, but for some reason the comment doesn't get posted! So I'm trying again. Basically, I botched that example entirely. I was trying to channel this official guide sentence: "Nobody knows exactly how many languages there are in the world, partly because of the difficulty of distinguishing between a language and the sub-languages or dialects within it, but those who have tried counting it typically find about 5,000." (Notice... "those who have tried counting IT") In that sentence, "it" is wrong. You are counting THE LANGUAGES. Not THE NUMBER OF LANGUAGES. But since I was going from memory and didn't re-check the sentence, I completely mixed it up, and used a (correct) plural pronoun 'them,' which, yes, can absolutely be the stars. Everything I say about that sentence is wrong, because somehow my neurons got crossed on the point of the sentence I was trying to reference! Thanks for catching it.
Which error do you think you see? I don't think there is an error in parallelism. The only parallel structure I see is "They prefer SELLING...over HAVING" which is correct parallelism. HOWEVER, the preferred idiom is probably "preferred X... TO y" (I can't recall an official question testing this idiom! If anyone finds one please post it here). The other thing that could be parallelism is that the sentence as currently written is two clauses: "A store will put on a sale..., and they prefer." When it's probably more concise to use parallelism ("A store will put on a sale... and prefers") and more PREcise to use a modifier ("A store will put on a sale..., preferring X to Y.") I wrote the sentence purely to demonstrate how the GMAT might hide a pronoun error, and definitely don't vouch that the sentence (or any others) is correct otherwise!
Hi, Thanks for such wonderful session. Just one doubt though. In IT as a placeholder, how can we identify the occurrence of Independent event and validate whether to use It as place holder or not ? Let me discuss one official question for instance. "The Reporter say that if it is allowed to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa, the colors Leonardo da Vinci painted nearly five hundred years ago will once again shine through". As per me IT replaces "to phrase that comes after IT, in this case "To Remove and Replace....." So, the sentence will essentially become: "The reporters say that if to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa is allowed, the colors Leonardo........" To me, this sentence makes complete sense, and many sentences like this construct have been taken ok on GMAT. But, this sentence is wrong. I tried it following the logical way as stated by you, but still both events of IF-THEN seems to be someway dependent and by that logic as well, I am not able to rule out this sentence. Can you please help me understand what I am missing here . Thanks In advance.
When you say "The sentence will essentially become:" you then write a different sentence! "If X is allowed to Y" means that thing X can do whatever Y is. In the sentence you've, thing X is "to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa." So, making that replacement, the sentence is: "If [to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa] is allowed to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa..." I think you're mixing this up with a similar structure: "If removing and replacing the discovered layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa is allowed," Or, if we wanted to use a pronoun, "If it is allowed, removing and replacing the discolored layers of varnish on the Mona Lisa will cause the colors Da Vinci painted to once again shine through." The difference is structure: "If X is allowed to Y" means thing 'X' does thing 'Y.' "If X is allowed" means someone is allowed to 'X.'
@Reed Arnold "The number of stars in the universe was unknown until scientists developed highly advanced mathematic techniques to quantify them?" or " The number of stars in the universe was unknown until scientists developed highly advanced mathematic techniques to quantify it? If we use was and not were, then why not use it instead of them?
3 As of pronouns Ambiguity Agreement Antecedent It is the only pronoun that doesn’t need an antecedent. But *it * can’t replace the whole clause. Sara’s job is hectic and her boss is crazy. Wrong. Her has no antecedent. A group comprised of 10 members, bla bla it not they….. COMMON TRAP. SINGULAR PLURAL IE GROUP KA IT HOGA NOT THEY. 5 DEADLY PEONOUNS IT ITS THEY THEM THEIR
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excellent .I appreciate to you. Last day I bought manhattan prep strategy guide and OG BUT which part will I firstly start ?Can you suggest me specially in English.?
Hi there! Our Foundations of Verbal Book is a great place to start!
A little note that only further demonstrates my frustration with the 'squishiness' of pronouns. Around the 23:30 mark I talk about replacing a possessive noun (building's) with a non possessive pronoun (it). At one point this was not allowed, and it is still maybe not *ideal*, but there have been OG questions in which the right answer *does this very thing*.
So my tip would be: if you see a non-possessive pronoun replacing a possessive noun, note it, but don't eliminate that answer for it. Try to eliminate answers for other reasons, and use this only as a tie-breaker (this being the same advice I give for the "I don't know why it's wrong, but it sounds bad" answer choices in SC).
Also a note on the 'because' idea regarding 'comma,--ing' modifiers at the end, there: you can also put the 'because' on the *first* part of the sentence.
"The ingredients to the soda were replaced with a significantly cheaper alternative, drastically changing its taste so that it was unrecognizable as the same brand."
Can be thought of as "[Because] the ingredients were replaced..., the taste drastically changed..."
@ReedArnold At 24:08, In the second sentence - Because the dolphin displays several behaviours that indicate self awareness ... many people think they should be considered non-human persons. I think this sentence is also the case of absent antecedent because 'they' in the above sentence should point to 'the dolphin' which is singular. Hence, this sentence is errorneous right?
@@anushikagupta8379 It is wrong, but it's not usually what we would call a 'missing antecedent.' The antecedent is there (the dolphin), it just doesn't agree with the pronoun in number.
A missing antecedent is something like: "The fossil that they found in Indonesia showed that the species survived in many different climates."
There is no antecedent for 'they.'
Can a pronoun refer to a noun in a prepositional phrase? The number of stars in the universe (stars is in the prepositional phrase) We want to quantify how many stars there are? if we want to find out the number of stars then I am still not sure why we can't write the sentence with them?
Hey Marc, I've tried to reply to your questions here a few times, but for some reason the comment doesn't get posted! So I'm trying again.
Basically, I botched that example entirely.
I was trying to channel this official guide sentence:
"Nobody knows exactly how many languages there are in the world, partly because of the difficulty of distinguishing between a language and the sub-languages or dialects within it, but those who have tried counting it typically find about 5,000."
(Notice... "those who have tried counting IT")
In that sentence, "it" is wrong. You are counting THE LANGUAGES. Not THE NUMBER OF LANGUAGES.
But since I was going from memory and didn't re-check the sentence, I completely mixed it up, and used a (correct) plural pronoun 'them,' which, yes, can absolutely be the stars. Everything I say about that sentence is wrong, because somehow my neurons got crossed on the point of the sentence I was trying to reference!
Thanks for catching it.
Hi, wouldn’t the clothing store example be incorrect due to errors in parallelism structure?
Which error do you think you see? I don't think there is an error in parallelism. The only parallel structure I see is "They prefer SELLING...over HAVING" which is correct parallelism.
HOWEVER, the preferred idiom is probably "preferred X... TO y" (I can't recall an official question testing this idiom! If anyone finds one please post it here).
The other thing that could be parallelism is that the sentence as currently written is two clauses: "A store will put on a sale..., and they prefer."
When it's probably more concise to use parallelism ("A store will put on a sale... and prefers") and more PREcise to use a modifier ("A store will put on a sale..., preferring X to Y.")
I wrote the sentence purely to demonstrate how the GMAT might hide a pronoun error, and definitely don't vouch that the sentence (or any others) is correct otherwise!
Hi, Thanks for such wonderful session. Just one doubt though. In IT as a placeholder, how can we identify the occurrence of Independent event and validate whether to use It as place holder or not ? Let me discuss one official question for instance. "The Reporter say that if it is allowed to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa, the colors Leonardo da Vinci painted nearly five hundred years ago will once again shine through". As per me IT replaces "to phrase that comes after IT, in this case "To Remove and Replace....." So, the sentence will essentially become: "The reporters say that if to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa is allowed, the colors Leonardo........" To me, this sentence makes complete sense, and many sentences like this construct have been taken ok on GMAT. But, this sentence is wrong. I tried it following the logical way as stated by you, but still both events of IF-THEN seems to be someway dependent and by that logic as well, I am not able to rule out this sentence. Can you please help me understand what I am missing here . Thanks In advance.
When you say "The sentence will essentially become:" you then write a different sentence!
"If X is allowed to Y" means that thing X can do whatever Y is. In the sentence you've, thing X is "to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa."
So, making that replacement, the sentence is:
"If [to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa] is allowed to remove and replace the discolored layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa..."
I think you're mixing this up with a similar structure:
"If removing and replacing the discovered layer of varnish on the Mona Lisa is allowed,"
Or, if we wanted to use a pronoun, "If it is allowed, removing and replacing the discolored layers of varnish on the Mona Lisa will cause the colors Da Vinci painted to once again shine through."
The difference is structure: "If X is allowed to Y" means thing 'X' does thing 'Y.'
"If X is allowed" means someone is allowed to 'X.'
What are the answers to all the questions you have done?
@Reed Arnold "The number of stars in the universe was unknown until scientists developed highly advanced mathematic techniques to quantify them?" or " The number of stars in the universe was unknown until scientists developed highly advanced mathematic techniques to quantify it? If we use was and not were, then why not use it instead of them?
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Is this sentence correct? The number of stars in the universe was unknown until scientists developed highly advanced mathematics to count them?
Yes that would be correct. I think I perfectly mixed up the point of that sentence.
@@reedarnold5468 Then why if we replace count with quantify we must use it and not them?
3 As of pronouns
Ambiguity
Agreement
Antecedent
It is the only pronoun that doesn’t need an antecedent. But *it * can’t replace the whole clause.
Sara’s job is hectic and her boss is crazy. Wrong. Her has no antecedent.
A group comprised of 10 members, bla bla it not they…..
COMMON TRAP. SINGULAR PLURAL IE GROUP KA IT HOGA NOT THEY.
5 DEADLY PEONOUNS IT ITS THEY THEM THEIR