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Typically, if one refers to a corporation, one should refer to "its." "Their" is incorrect for the reason you demonstrated. You took their to mean the assets of the corporation. Others would take that word to refer to the employees of the corporation. Still others would assume it refered to the stockholders of the corp.
Sure. But so long as you implied the assets, the employees or the stockholders, the sentence is fine. Equivalently, "its" could mean the stock, the company's revenue model, heck, even the IP portfolio of the company. Either construct is semantically incomplete, but grammatically faultless.
Since you seem to object in particular to "India..", consider this "The LA Lakers [players] are better at basketball than The Sacramento Kings". Contrast this with "The LA Lakers [team] is one of the best paid professional teams in this country"
In any case, thanks for your education, Sauk. People in the thread should now be learned enough to reject these sentences as well <grin>
(1) The Beatles were some of the most famous entertainers in history.
(2) The jury entered the courtroom and took their seats. Contrast with The jury is ready to deliver its verdict.
All in good humor
Anand
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Thanks to the thread for reading my admittedly off-topic posts. I've learned a lot from the discussions here and hope to contribute more relevant information in future.
Anand
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