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The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   15 Nov 2005, 14:59
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The players were often punished by the referee's lack of alertness who penalized all those who were involved in fighting, regardless of who had instigated it.
A. The players were often punished by the referee's lack of alertness who penalized
B. The referee's lack of alertness often caused him to penalize
C. The players were punished by the lack of alertness of the referee who penalized often
D. Lacking alertness, the referee's choice was to penalize often
E. His lack of alertness to brutality often caused the referee to penalize



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Re: The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   15 Nov 2005, 15:16
B.

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The players were often punished by the referee's lack of alertness who penalized

who need to point to referee not his lack of alertness

D/E changes meaning.
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Re: The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   15 Nov 2005, 15:25
B. The primary error here is the common ETS reference error. All the choices do not have a clear reference, except B.
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Re: The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   15 Nov 2005, 15:37
B,

a) Who is refering back to refree's lack of alertness --( Wrong relative pronoun who )
c) Complecate the sentence by interducing another who ....which cause confusion about the who in the later portion of the sentence.
d) Misplaced midifyer ...
E) His lack of alerness .....( his...wrong pronoun)1
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Re: The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   16 Nov 2005, 12:45
thank you everybody....the OA is B
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Re: The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   16 Nov 2005, 12:48
thank you everybody....the OA is B
Next time...I think I should post the tougher question....Ha...ha..ha
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Re: The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   16 Nov 2005, 17:35
Hey ong, its never about posting tougher questions! Post those questions for which you want a discussion, where you dont agree with the OA or want to learn the concept or you have come across a real good question and want to share with the others!

Many times, I post to check whether I am the only one who got a questions wrong! and other time to check can anyone else get the answer right!! :wink:
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Re: The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   19 Nov 2005, 11:52
Heyyy...It's joking....don't be serious"rahulraao"
Fankly,my post is really what I do not understand.

In this question, I am very surprise that everybody can beat the question easily, while I am the only one in the doutb.
However, I apologize for any misconceive.

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Re: The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   19 Nov 2005, 19:25
My anwer is B as well. Most of the answer choices were passive clauses..
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Re: The players were often punished by the referee's lack of [#permalink] New post   24 Nov 2005, 11:03
Late, but B. Always give preference to the active voice.



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