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Post subject: strategy guide 4thedition example of adverb+adjective+noun  Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:46 pm |
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in strategy guide 4th edition there is an example of adverb+adjective+noun ..
Max's grandmother is his supposedly Irish ancestor.
is this grammatically correct or there is a pronoun issue ...
i.e. his don't have an antecedent
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Post subject: Re: strategy guide 4thedition example of adverb+adjective+noun Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 11:34 am |
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hemant.rao110 wrote: in strategy guide 4th edition there is an example of adverb+adjective+noun ..
Max's grandmother is his supposedly Irish ancestor.
is this grammatically correct or there is a pronoun issue ...
i.e. his don't have an antecedent I'm going to challenge you a bit here. "his" is trying to refer to Max--is Max in the sentence as a noun?
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Post subject: Re: strategy guide 4thedition example of adverb+adjective+noun Posted: Thu Jul 14, 2011 3:45 pm |
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Max is not there in the sentence ........or Max is not the noun in this sentence so how 'his' will point to Max
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Post subject: Re: strategy guide 4thedition example of adverb+adjective+noun Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:11 pm |
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Correct, "Max" is not in the sentence so we must rewrite it to include Max if we want to use a pronoun referring to Max.
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Post subject: Re: strategy guide 4thedition example of adverb+adjective+noun Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 3:45 pm |
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so what would be the correct sentence, if that sentence is wrong
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Post subject: Re: strategy guide 4thedition example of adverb+adjective+noun Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 11:46 pm |
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actually, the sentence is wrong for other reasons. there is nothing wrong with the pronoun. a possessive pronoun can refer back to a possessive noun, which is what is happening here..
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Post subject: Re: strategy guide 4thedition example of adverb+adjective+noun Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2011 4:11 pm |
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So the rule,"a pronoun must have an antecedent" is sometimes fails...... if so, then how to deal with those kind of problems in real gmat. Then the elimination on the basis of antecedent will not come into account.
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Post subject: Re: strategy guide 4thedition example of adverb+adjective+noun Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:20 am |
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tim wrote: actually, the sentence is wrong for other reasons. there is nothing wrong with the pronoun. a possessive pronoun can refer back to a possessive noun, which is what is happening here.. Thanks Tim! Once again, Tim knows all. :-)
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Post subject: Re: strategy guide 4thedition example of adverb+adjective+noun Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:22 am |
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hemant.rao110 wrote: So the rule,"a pronoun must have an antecedent" is sometimes fails...... if so, then how to deal with those kind of problems in real gmat. Then the elimination on the basis of antecedent will not come into account. Actually, Tim is saying that we have the noun the pronoun is referring back to; the possessive pronoun "his" is referring to the possessive noun "Max's".
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