<p>Katarina could not be certain whether the voice she heard on the recording was her (uncle or someone else) who speaks with a heavy German accent.</p>
<p>D) uncle's or that of someone else
E) uncle's or someone else's</p>
<p>Two choices i have it down to are D and E. Why is it D and not E? Is it because you need to have voice after "else's" in E?</p>
<p>Yes.</p>
<p>'s is possessive and must be followed by a noun.</p>
<p>E is ambiguous. Someone else’s could refer to someone else’s anything. You want to use “that of” to specify someone else’s voice.</p>
<p>Alternatively, you can put voice after someone else’s … but in at least one writing question from an released exam, CB prefers the use of a relative pronoun.</p>
<p>Katarina could not be certain whether the voice she heard on the recording was her (uncle or someone else) who speaks with a heavy German accent.</p>
<p>A uncle or someone else
B. uncle or that of someone else
C. uncle’s or someone else
D. uncle’s or that of someone else
E. uncle’s or someone else’s </p>
<p>The underlined part is follwed by ‘who speaks with a heavy German accent’,
which means the underlined part has to end with a noun(precedent) so that
it can be followed by a relative pronoun(who).</p>
<p>(D) uncle’s (voice) or voice of someone else who speaks with ~ <a href=“E”>O</a> uncle’s (voice) or someone else’s (voice) who speaks with ~ [X]</p>
<p>Sometimes, you cannot answer the question without looking at the rest
of the question.</p>