<p>Test 10 Section 3 (26)
The office manager and her coworker, Ms. Andrews, (received)(A) equal pay from the company (until)(B) (she)(C) got a raise (for helping)(D) to increase productivity.</p>
<p>The answer is C because of pronoun ambiguity. I can get it.
But shouldn’t ‘received’ be changed to ‘had received’ or ‘had been receiving’, because it refers to an earlier condition that continues until a moment when ‘she’ got the raise, which is also a past event?</p>
<p>And there’s also another one:
The Red Cross workers had not expected the refugees from the flooded plain to be as desperate and as undernourished as those whom they had seen earlier in the week.
It contains no errors. But shouldn’t the first ‘had not’ be past tense since it indicates an event happened later than ‘earlier this week’ later in the sentence?</p>
<p>The office manager and her coworker, Ms. Andrews, (received)(A) equal pay from the company (until)(B) (she)(C) got a raise (for helping)(D) to increase productivity.</p>
<p>The major error is (C) in that “she” is an ambiguous reference. But as you note (A) is less than perfect usage. It should be “had received”. The “until” makes the use of the past perfect still more compelling.</p>