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142 Vocabulary 4000
Solutions to Drill I
1. Had the President’s Administration not lost the vote on the budget reduction
package, his first year in office would have been rated an A.
(A) Had the President’s Administration not lost the vote on the budget
reduction package, his first year in office would have been rated an A.
(B) If the Administration had not lost the vote on the budget reduction
package, his first year in office would have been rated an A.
(C) Had the President’s Administration not lost the vote on the budget
reduction package, it would have been rated an A.
(D) Had the President’s Administration not lost the vote on its budget
reduction package, his first year in office would have been rated an A.
(E) If the President had not lost the vote on the budget reduction package,
the Administration’s first year in office would have been rated an A.
Choice (A) is incorrect because his appears to refer to the President,
but the subject of the subordinate clause is the President’s
Administration, not the President.
Choice (B) changes the structure of the sentence, but retains the
same flawed reference.
In choice (C), it can refer to either the President’s
Administration or the budget reduction package. Thus, the reference
is ambiguous.
Choice (D) adds another pronoun, its, but still retains the same
flawed reference.
Choice (E) corrects the flawed reference by removing all
pronouns. The answer is (E).
2. The new law requires a manufacturer to immediately notify their customers
whenever the government is contemplating a forced recall of any of the
manufacturer’s products.
(A) to immediately notify their customers whenever the government is
contemplating a forced recall of any of the manufacturer’s products.
(B) to immediately notify customers whenever the government is
contemplating a forced recall of their products.
(C) to immediately, and without delay, notify its customers whenever the
government is contemplating a forced recall of any of the
manufacture’s products.
(D) to immediately notify whenever the government is contemplating a
forced recall of any of the manufacturer’s products that the customers
may have bought.
(E) to immediately notify its customers whenever the government is
contemplating a forced recall of any of the manufacturer’s products.