The Kwakiutl recognized one social unit larger than

[dvrsrikar]

Hi Ron/Stacey

As cfaking asked, I was also wondering whether we can use "who" for "tribes"? I thought "who" can only be used for Singular and Living - tribal people are Living, but Tribe is not? Pls correct wherever my logic is flawed.

Thanking you in advance...and awaiting your response (hope the sentence is correct parallelism) :)

DVR

[tim]

Hi Ron/Stacey

As cfaking asked, I was also wondering whether we can use "who" for "tribes"? I thought "who" can only be used for Singular and Living - tribal people are Living, but Tribe is not? Pls correct wherever my logic is flawed.

Thanking you in advance...and awaiting your response (hope the sentence is correct parallelism) :)

DVR

The parallelism is correct, but it's not a sentence.. :)

"who" is indeed a relative pronoun, and as we see in this example, apparently the GMAT considers it appropriate to use for a group of people. i think if you really want to get detailed here, the distinction is what entities are interacting. The tribes themselves aren't interacting unless we're talking about diplomatic relations, so we infer that the individual people within the tribes are the ones interacting. Thus the use of "who" is certainly justified..

[anand.balaji02]

If i give an option F like

F. tribes who interacted with one another more often than among

will it be correct?

[RonPurewal]

If i give an option F like

F. tribes who interacted with one another more often than among

will it be correct?

no, because "interacted among" doesn't make sense. if "X" is actually one of the parties in a given interaction, it only makes sense to say "X interacted with Y".

you can talk about "[i]interactions between X and Y", but that's not what this sentence is doing.

[anand.balaji02]

Thanks Ron

[jnelson0612]

Thanks.

[joinashish]

thanks, a wonderful explanation. cleared lot of doubts

[RonPurewal]

good stuff.

[saintjingjing]

source: gmatprep 2, q. 30.

The Kwakiutl recognized one social unit larger than the tribe-the confederacy, which was a cluster of loosely knit, informally related neighboring tribes who interacted with themselves more often than between other tribes.

A. tribes who interacted with themselves more often than between
B. tribes who interacted among each other more often than among
C. tribes who interacted with one another more often than with
D. tribes, interacting among each other more often than between
E. tribes, interacting among one another more often than with

OA: C


Since there are more than two tribes interacting, we can not use "between". I eliminated A,D.
It seems that in E, interacting refers to "the confederacy", although I am not sure. If it does, then the interaction can not be among one another.
Between B and C, I am clueless. I would appreciate any help, thanks.

en, hmm? I see this guy say Since there are more than two tribes interacting, we can not use "between". I eliminated A.
why other people think this thinking is a little odd? since there are many examples, "between themselves" or else....

so open to discuss thanks in advance

[RonPurewal]

en, hmm? I see this guy say Since there are more than two tribes interacting, we can not use "between". I eliminated A.
why other people think this thinking is a little odd? since there are many examples, "between themselves" or else....

so open to discuss thanks in advance

you can say "interactions between other tribes", but "X interacted between other tribes" is wrong. (note that this part of the sentences follows tribes who interacted...)

by the same token, you can't use "X interacted among other tribes", either.

[aps_asks]

Is choice A) inferior due to bad parallelism ?

[RonPurewal]

Is choice A) inferior due to bad parallelism ?

no, the parallelism in (a) isn't any worse than the parallelism in the other choices.

* "between" is illogical, for reasons that i explained in the post directly on top of yours.

* "interacted with themselves" seems to imply that they actually talked to themselves, like crazy street people (as opposed to interacting with each other).

[konaabhigna]

rtfact wrote:
source: gmatprep 2, q. 30.

The Kwakiutl recognized one social unit larger than the tribe-the confederacy, which was a cluster of loosely knit, informally related neighboring tribes who interacted with themselves more often than between other tribes.

A. tribes who interacted with themselves more often than between
B. tribes who interacted among each other more often than among
C. tribes who interacted with one another more often than with
D. tribes, interacting among each other more often than between
E. tribes, interacting among one another more often than with

OA: C


Since there are more than two tribes interacting, we can not use "between". I eliminated A,D.
It seems that in E, interacting refers to "the confederacy", although I am not sure. If it does, then the interaction can not be among one another.
Between B and C, I am clueless. I would appreciate any help, thanks.


2 idiom errors in (b):
* "interact" MUST be paired with "with". "interact between" and "interact among" are unidiomatic.
* "among each other" is unidiomatic (as is "between each other"); you should write "among themselves" or "between themselves". but, again, this doesn't work with "interact" anyway, so the issue is moot here

Hi Ron,
I was under the impression that among is used for more than two things and between is used for 2 things.

In that case can we write between themselves?

Please correct me if I am wrong

Regards,
abhi

[RonPurewal]

* As stated above, "interact" can't be used with "between" or "among".

* In this context"”"a cluster of tribes""”there are clearly more than two tribes. So, "between" wouldn't work.

In a different context, with only two things/people, "between themselves" could work.

[konaabhigna]

Thank you Ron

Regards,
Abhi