<p>29<br>
To understand twentieth-century economic practices, we must be sufficiently familiar with Keynesian theories, whether one agrees with them or not. </p>
<p>A) to understand
B) we must
C) familiar with
D) with them
E) no error</p>
<p>B is a pronoun shift error. However, I think that D contains an ambiguous pronoun..? (Does "them" refer to the Keynesian theories or the economic practices?)</p>
<p>Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>first of all, the subject has to be “one” and not “we” because “we” does not conform with the subject in “…one agrees with them or not”</p>
<p>second of all, “them” is not a ambiguous pronoun because of how the sentence is constructed: the clause is the main part of the sentence. “To understand twentieth-century economic practices” is simply there to describe the motives of the person</p>
<p>for example, “Impressing his parents, he passed the test, whether by skill or luck.”</p>
<p>the action “impressing his parents” describes the actions of he and “whether by skill or luck” describes the action passed the test</p>
<p>we know that he passed the test with skill/luck, not that he impressed his parents with skill/luck</p>
<p>ambiguous pronouns are important on the SAT only when two important subjects are denoted (meaning there are two clauses, or two nouns in one clause), not when just any two nouns are denoted</p>
<p>so if the sentences were broken into two important clauses there would be an ambiguous pronoun, or a change in meaning in this case:</p>
<p>He impressed his parents and passed the test, whether by skill or luck</p>
<p>thanks, that was a good answer.</p>