Hi Ron,
This is an excerpt from SC Q68 of 2nd Ed. Verbal Review.
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Please let me know where I am going wrong.
Thank you very much in advance
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Re: Pronoun ambiguity
do not quote anything directly from the OG. in the future, any such post will be summarily deleted.
the issue with that problem can also be interpreted in terms of parallel structure.
to illustrate:
read the following sentence QUICKLY. DO NOT read 'like a test taker'.
I took the pizzas out of the boxes and threw them in the trash.
almost without a doubt, your first reading of that sentence was "i threw the pizzas into the trash" (maybe because they were expired, or, who knows).
it's much more probable, of course, that i threw away the boxes—but parallelism is a very strong force in the reader's brain. the natural reading is to associate took the pizzas... and threw them....
the same issue exists in the problem about which you are asking.
the issue with that problem can also be interpreted in terms of parallel structure.
to illustrate:
read the following sentence QUICKLY. DO NOT read 'like a test taker'.
I took the pizzas out of the boxes and threw them in the trash.
almost without a doubt, your first reading of that sentence was "i threw the pizzas into the trash" (maybe because they were expired, or, who knows).
it's much more probable, of course, that i threw away the boxes—but parallelism is a very strong force in the reader's brain. the natural reading is to associate took the pizzas... and threw them....
the same issue exists in the problem about which you are asking.
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