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<p>Many changes occurred while she was president of the (college, and they increased its educational quality as well as effectiveness.)</p>

<p>a) same as original statement
b) college; these changes increased its educational quality and effeectiveness
c) college; these changes increased both the educational quality and effectiveness of the college</p>

<p>The answer is c and I got it right. But I would like to know why options b and a are wrong. The explanation from the college board for why b is wrong is that "its" is ambiguous. </p>

<p>Why would it be ambiguous? I thought that "its" is clearly refering to the college. Does this mean that the independent clause after the semi-colon is considered as a seperate sentence and would thus account for the whole ambiguous thing? Same case with option a.</p>

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<p>We do not know what “its” is referring to in answer A because there are multiple singular nouns in the sentence like president. B is incorrect because as you said, the independent clause after the semi-colon is considered a separate sentence and must include what exactly “its” is.</p>

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<p>Hey bio, I agree with your explanation for answer b but not for answer a.</p>

<p>It is clear that its refers to the college because if a pronoun was referring to the president it would be “her” because she was the president.</p>

<p>So the sentence would read - college, and they increased her educational quality as well as effectiveness.</p>

<p>What do you think?</p>