Napoleon's army entered Russia....

[Infinite7]

Although Napoleon’s army entered Russia with far more supplies than they had in their previous campaigns, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.

(A) they had in their previous campaigns
(B) their previous campaigns had had
(C) they had for any previous campaign
(D) in their previous campaigns
(E) for any previous campaign

[arindambanerji]

IMO E

rest all has problem with pronoun referents

[goswaa]

OA please?

[atishree]

IMO
..than their previous campaigns had had
had had is a past perfect of the verb "to have", it is used in scenarios to express an activity that happened before another activity , in the past.

[GMATRK]

Its E

[santroz]

It's E..
The subject of the sentence is Napolean's army which is singular (can be easily figured out by seeing IT in the non-underlined portion: it had provisions for only twenty-four days )...all the choices from A to D uses plural THEY or THEIR to refer back to the army..hence only E remains and the OA...

[Infinite7]

The OA is E! So pronoun referents such as they, their, etc... cannot refer to collective nouns???

[snv85]

Originally Posted by Infinite7

Although Napoleon’s army entered Russia with far more supplies than they had in their previous campaigns, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.

(A) they had in their previous campaigns
(B) their previous campaigns had had
(C) they had for any previous campaign
(D) in their previous campaigns
(E) for any previous campaign

Heyyy could some illustrate if the following comparison in bold is illogical

Although Napoleon’s army entered Russia with far more supplies than it had in its previous campaigns, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.

[santroz]

Originally Posted by snv85

Heyyy could some illustrate if the following comparison in bold is illogical

Although Napoleon’s army entered Russia with far more supplies than it had in its previous campaigns, it had provisions for only twenty-four days.

Yep..the comparison is illogical(rather incorrect)...the pronoun references are resolved but here's the reason the comparison is illogical :

ENTERED : Is in past tense. So the verb of the clause it had in its previous campaigns should be in past perfect tense because it happened before the ENTERED happened...Pls. note that HAD in the clause doesn't represent the past perfect, it represents the possession of the supplies..so we need one more HAD to denote make it past perfect..hence the correct sentence(rather clause) will be:

it had had in its previous campaigns .

HTH..

[gmatissimple]

Simple pronoun reference.
They and their don't have no reference. E it is.