by RonPurewal Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:05 pm
Genevieve,
The 'possessive poison' section is a controversial part of that strategy guide, and its solutions guide is (very uncharacteristically) rather poorly written in a few places. We've made significant edits, but, unfortunately, you can't install 'software updates' in paper books.
In any case, you are right that the repetition of 'Kathy' is undesirable (you'd only want to do that if there were more than one woman mentioned, and naming Kathy again were thus the only way to avoid fatal ambiguity). A much better way to revise the sentence: 'Kathy had stuffed her suitcase so full that she decided to pack another one.'
By the way: The OG does mention possessive poison (although not by that name), so we consider it our duty to teach it. However, if it's causing you problems, it's OK for you to put it on the back burner: it only appears in one problem out of everything in OG11 and OG verbal, and (here's the kicker) it's not even decisive in that problem anyway. (And yes, I grossly misused 'it' a couple of times in that sentence.)