In late 1997,the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza were closed to visitors fo cleaning and repairing due to moisture exhaled by tourists,which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing and fungus was growing in the walls.
A) due to moisture exhaled by tourists,which raised its humidity to such levels so that salt from the stone was crystallizing
B) due to moisture that tourists had exhaled,thereby raising its humidity to such levels that salt from the stone would crystallize.
C) because tourists were exhaling moisture,which had raised the humidity within then to levels such that salt from the stone would crystallize.
D)because of moisture that was exhaled by tourists raising the humidity within them to levels so high as to mke the salt fron the stone crystallize.
E) because moisture exhaled by tourists had raised the humidity within them to such levels that salt from the stone was crystallizing.
Saturday, May 2, 2009
the chambers inside the pyramid of the Pharaoh Menkaure at Giza
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The correct answer should be (E) because only (A) and (E) show parallelism. Option (A) is incorrect because of uses of WHICH that incorrectly refers to MOISTURE.
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My doubt here is that in the correct option is 'them' not referring to 'tourists'?
No. 'THEM' is not referring to tourist because it is neither the subject nor object of the sentence. This is one of the GMAT trap. In short, THEM correctly refers to subject of the sentence, i.e. CHAMBERS
RULE: If a noun is neither subject or object of main clause/sentence then it doesn't introduce pronoun ambiguity in that sentence.