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1000 SC #48

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IAmSam
 Post subject: 1000 SC #48
 Post Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 3:17 am 
48. According to some analysts, whatever its merits, the proposal to tax away all capital gains on short-term investments would, if enacted, have a disastrous effect on Wall Street trading and employment.
(A) its merits, the proposal to tax
(B) its merits may be, the proposal of taxing
(C) its merits as a proposal, taxing
(D) the proposal’s merits, to tax
(E) the proposal’s merits are, taxing


Can you please explain why the answer is a and not b?
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RonPurewal
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 Post Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2007 9:34 pm 
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It looks like the decision is predicated on the difference in idiomatic usage between "proposal to tax..." and "proposal of taxing...". I think you'll agree that the former is better.

The usage of 'whatever' in this sentence is somewhat old-fashioned, but by no means incorrect. It's essentially equivalent to both words of 'regardless of' rolled up into one.

HTH. In any case, 1000SC problems are often not as clear-cut as the genuine article.
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agautamdai
 Post subject: Re: 1000 SC #48
 Post Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2011 10:54 pm 
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the issue which i have wth this question is that how "ITS" can be a pronoun for the anteceedent " proposal" because, I thought that the case of the pronoun needs to match that of the anteceendent.
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jnelson0612
 Post subject: Re: 1000 SC #48
 Post Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:56 pm 
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agautamdai wrote:
the issue which i have wth this question is that how "ITS" can be a pronoun for the anteceedent " proposal" because, I thought that the case of the pronoun needs to match that of the anteceendent.


Yes, and we have a match here, since "its" is a singular pronoun; thus it matches nicely to the singular noun "proposal".

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