September 2009 LSAT Section 2 Question 17

Suppose an inventor describes an innovative idea for an invention to an engineer, who volunteers to draft specificati...

JohnSummers on May 2 at 08:35PM

The wording in this question threw me off and caused me to choose wrong.

When it says "who volunteers", I assumed this was still the inventor who is volunteering to draft and construct the prototype since it then states "using the engineer's own materials" instead of saying that he used his own materials. I chose both because I thought the idea and project were all the inventors but the materials were the engineers. Is there a way to avoid missing small details like this and determine who the question is talking about more specifically, or is this just a stand-alone case?

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Emil-Kunkin on May 3 at 12:49AM

I would try reading in a conversational tone. That is, read in your head as if you were trying to tell it to someone else. Since the question asks what happens if an inventor describes something to an engineer who then writes it down, I think this clearly means in conversation that the engineer writes it down, since he is the antecedent.