421. In theory, international civil servants at the United Nations are prohibited from continuing to draw salaries from their own governments; in practice, however, some governments merely substitute living allowances for their employees paychecks, assigned by them to the United Nations.(A) for their employees paychecks, assigned by them
(B) for the paychecks of their employees who have been assigned
(C) for the paychecks of their employees, having been assigned
(D) in place of their employees paychecks, for those of them assigned(B)
(E) in place of the paychecks of their employees to have been assigned by them
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In choice A, the phrase assigned by them modifies the adjacent noun, paychecks: the sentence implies that paychecks, rather than employees, work at the United Nations. In C, the phrase having been assigned... is uncertain in reference, making the sentence unclear. By using in place of instead of/or, j choices D and E create the unidiomatic and redundant construction substitutes x in place of y. Moreover, D, aside from being wordy, is unclear because the pronoun them has no unambiguous antecedent; and in E, their employees to have been assigned by them is wordy and awkward. Choice B, the best answer, properly uses the phrase who have been assigned... to the United Nations to modify employees.
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(B) for the paychecks of their employees who have been assigned
(C) for the paychecks of their employees, having been assigned
(D) in place of their employees paychecks, for those of them assigned(B)
(E) in place of the paychecks of their employees to have been assigned by them
Solution:
OG Solution:
In choice A, the phrase assigned by them modifies the adjacent noun, paychecks: the sentence implies that paychecks, rather than employees, work at the United Nations. In C, the phrase having been assigned... is uncertain in reference, making the sentence unclear. By using in place of instead of/or, j choices D and E create the unidiomatic and redundant construction substitutes x in place of y. Moreover, D, aside from being wordy, is unclear because the pronoun them has no unambiguous antecedent; and in E, their employees to have been assigned by them is wordy and awkward. Choice B, the best answer, properly uses the phrase who have been assigned... to the United Nations to modify employees.
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