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1. A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that even Theodore C. Sorensen, the White House counsel, did not know it existed.

 

(A) A recording system was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office that

 

(B) So secret was a recording system installation and operation in the Kennedy Oval Office

 

© It was so secret that a recording system was installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office

 

(D) A recording system that was so secretly installed and operated in the Kennedy Oval Office

 

(E) Installed and operated so secretly in the Kennedy Oval Office was a recording system that

Pls answer with appropriate explanation...OA will follow

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A. for me..==> use of correct idiom ..so.. that..

 

B. absence of so that

C. changes the meanin.. installing and operation is considered sceret in this case.

D. absence of so that.

E. more passive than A, also A is better structred.

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Can anybody please explain what the last 'it' is referring to.

Its a [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] question and it says

"A, the best choice, correctly focuses upon the recording system by making it the straightforward subject of the sentence and the logical referent of the pronoun it in the last line."

 

but as far as i know , 'it' modifies the nearest noun , so isnt this 'it' referring to 'the White House'

Can anybody please xplain ?

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Can anybody please explain what the last 'it' is referring to.

Its a [tooltip=Official Guide]OG[/tooltip] question and it says

"A, the best choice, correctly focuses upon the recording system by making it the straightforward subject of the sentence and the logical referent of the pronoun it in the last line."

 

but as far as i know , 'it' modifies the nearest noun , so isnt this 'it' referring to 'the White House'

Can anybody please xplain ?

 

We do not use IT to refer persons, instead we use He/She. White House Counsel must be referred by He/She, if at all wanted to refer. "IT" is the pronoun use to refer non-living things or animals. Hence 'IT' in the above system is clearly referring to The Recording system.

Hope it clears.

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