Multiple choice

The recent research conducted by FICCI concludes that manufacturing the same articles as are manufactured in large facilities will lead to economic disaster for the small manufacturer, who should be more focused on undertaking cash flow enhancing manufacturing with speciality items.

  1. manufacturing the same articles as are manufactured in large facilities will lead to economic disaster for the small manufacturer, who

  2. it will lead to economic disaster for the small manufacturer to manufacture the same articles as in the large facilities; they

  3. economic disaster will result from manufacturing the same articles as large facilities to the small manufacturer, who

  4. economic disaster for the small manufacturer will result from manufacturing the same articles as in the large facilities; they

  5. the small manufacturer manufacturing the same articles as are manufactured in large facilities will lead to economic disaster; they
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Explanation

The pronouns ‘who/they’ after the coma refer to ‘the small manufacturer’ whom the sentence refers to in singular. Hence ‘who’ is the preferable construct. Option 3 says that ‘economic disaster will result ......... to the small manufacturer’ not a very proper construct. Hence (1).

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