A different variety of giant tortoise can be found on every

by **syxphoebe** Thu May 14, 2009 6:08 am

A different variety of giant tortoise can be found on every island in the Galapagos, each with its own style of oversized dome and comically scrawny neck.
(A) each with its own style of oversized dome and comically scrawny neck
(B) each with their own styles of oversized domes and comically scrawny necks
(C) each having their own style of oversized dome and comically scrawny neck
(D) all having their own styles of oversized domes and comically scrawny necks
(E) all with their own style of oversized dome and comically scrawny neck

the answer is A
i can pick itï¼Œbut i don't understand the structure.
some thoughts? THX O(âˆ©_âˆ©)O~

by **syxphoebe** Sun May 17, 2009 8:22 am

please~~~~(>_<)~~~~

by **syxphoebe** Wed May 20, 2009 9:00 pm

could you help meï¼Ÿ

by **stock.mojo11** Wed May 20, 2009 11:11 pm

The subject is a different variety, which is clearly singular.

Except A, all have subject verb disagreement

by **JonathanSchneider** Fri May 22, 2009 2:03 am

You are right that there is an agreement error, though it is not subject-verb. Instead, the word "their" disqualifies B-E. This word is the plural pronoun.

by **syxphoebe** Mon May 25, 2009 11:50 am

stock.mojo11 Wrote:The subject is a different variety, which is clearly singular.

Except A, all have subject verb disagreement

S-V problem. thx . i always forget it.

by **syxphoebe** Mon May 25, 2009 11:52 am

JonathanSchneider Wrote:You are right that there is an agreement error, though it is not subject-verb. Instead, the word "their" disqualifies B-E. This word is the plural pronoun.

umm. correct what i just said. it's an agreement error . thank you O(âˆ©_âˆ©)O~

by **StaceyKoprince** Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:54 am

Reminder: do not re-post to your own thread asking for someone to reply. That moves your question later in the chain and you will wait longer for an answer because we generally answer the posts with the oldest "last post" dates first!

by **syxphoebe** Thu Jun 11, 2009 9:01 am

StaceyKoprince Wrote:Reminder: do not re-post to your own thread asking for someone to reply. That moves your question later in the chain and you will wait longer for an answer because we generally answer the posts with the oldest "last post" dates first!

thanksO(âˆ©_âˆ©)O~ got it~

by **Ben Ku** Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:05 pm

you're welcome.

by **tankobe** Sat Nov 28, 2009 1:14 am

i have a qustion about each as a pronoun.

Ron, i have search you post and find two example you put:
the gallery featured only four paintings, all art-deco pieces on canvas.
the gallery featured only four paintings, each a definitive masterwork of its creator.
in this construct, each can refer to a plural NOUN.
i also find a qustion in OG, in which the usage of each is wrong because it try to refer to a plural NOUN:
...after a decade, young men and women still experience effects of divorce that has occurred as each was a child.(I have change parts of the question)

1# so, can i conclude that beyond the construct you put, each must refer to a singlar NOUN?
2# can you tell more about the usage of each as a pronoun beyond the construct? please put some example!

stephen

by **violetwind** Sun Jul 10, 2011 10:09 am

the above question seems to be a lagan(hah,learned this word from Ron), could any instructor answer it? I'm also confused about the usage of "each" as a pronoun. its antecedent can be both plural and singular ?

but if the antecedent is singular, only each(which means singular) can be used, as in this Prep SC question?

by **RonPurewal** Fri Jul 15, 2011 4:57 am

tankobe Wrote:1# so, can i conclude that beyond the construct you put, each must refer to a singlar NOUN?

if "each" is a standalone pronoun, then i think it will refer to a plural noun in the vast majority of cases -- because "each" only makes sense in contexts that involve two or more things.

the construction "each NOUN" is singular, but that's an altogether different construction.

2# can you tell more about the usage of each as a pronoun beyond the construct? please put some example!

if this is a completely general question, you are probably better off googling something like "each pronoun" and reading the sites found by the search; such sites will inevitably contain more complete descriptions than we could write here. (this forum is primarily intended for the discussion of specific gmat-related problems.)

by **RonPurewal** Fri Jul 15, 2011 5:00 am

violetwind Wrote:the above question seems to be a lagan(hah,learned this word from Ron), could any instructor answer it? I'm also confused about the usage of "each" as a pronoun. its antecedent can be both plural and singular ?

but if the antecedent is singular, only each(which means singular) can be used, as in this Prep SC question?

lagan. heh.

i am 99.9% sure that this is not actually an official gmat prep problem; if you google the problem, this thread is the *only* hit that is not on a chinese server. (by contrast, try googling any legitimate gmat prep problem and you'll get hundreds of hits on different u.s.-based gmat forums.)

given that this problem is almost certainly *not* official, we can feel free to criticize it.
i don't think that "each" can correctly be used, in the main, unless it refers to some plural construction -- in other words, i think that the use of "each" in this problem (to refer to "a different variety") is actually incorrect.

by **violetwind** Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:39 am

RonPurewal Wrote:
violetwind Wrote:the above question seems to be a lagan(hah,learned this word from Ron), could any instructor answer it? I'm also confused about the usage of "each" as a pronoun. its antecedent can be both plural and singular ?

but if the antecedent is singular, only each(which means singular) can be used, as in this Prep SC question?

lagan. heh.

i am 99.9% sure that this is not actually an official gmat prep problem; if you google the problem, this thread is the *only* hit that is not on a chinese server. (by contrast, try googling any legitimate gmat prep problem and you'll get hundreds of hits on different u.s.-based gmat forums.)

given that this problem is almost certainly *not* official, we can feel free to criticize it.
i don't think that "each" can correctly be used, in the main, unless it refers to some plural construction -- in other words, i think that the use of "each" in this problem (to refer to "a different variety") is actually incorrect.

Yea, I'm also a little confused by the problem's usage of "a variety of", I think in this context, this phrase should be followed by a plural noun (if it is countable) as what it means.

And I think the subject should be that plural noun, not "variety", similar to "a number of"

Am I right?

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