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题库 / Prep2007E2-SC-20
The human nervous system and a telephone system superficially resemble each other, not only because the former carries information in the form of electrical impulses and because all of its neural pathways converge in the brain and spinal cord, which together form a kind of central exchange.
The human nervous system and a telephone system superficially resemble each other, not only because the former carries
The human nervous system and a telephone system bear a superficial resemblance because they both carry
The human nervous system bears a superficial resemblance to a telephone system both because the former carries
Superficially, a telephone system resembles the human nervous system both because they carry
There is a superficial resemblance between a telephone system and the human nervous system, not only because they both carry
in (b) and (d), the pronoun "its" is completely stranded; there's no antecedent for it anywhere.
takeaway:
if a sentence contains a COMPOUND NOUN (X and Y), you CANNOT use a pronoun to refer to just X or just Y, unless you use "the former" or "the latter" to make the distinction explicit.
* see #109 in the yellow og11. in that problem, all four of the incorrect answers try to use the singular pronoun "his" to refer to 1/2 of a compound noun. that's forbidden.
DO NOT post additional details of that problem here.
* this rule still holds even if X and Y take separate pronouns.
for instance:
joe and jane both have prestigious jobs, although her salary is much higher
would still be disallowed under the strict rules generally endorsed by the gmat, even though "her" can only refer to jane (since joe is male).
in this case, you'd just have to substitute "jane's" for "her".
that's the way it goes.
in (d), it's technically incorrect to use "they" because there is no place in which both systems are mentioned at once (e.g., with "and").
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