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A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
A. that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade
B. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
C. that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
D. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like earlier in the decade
E. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade
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C. that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
the sentence requires "keeps" in which case only A and C fit.
"like" isn't the best usage... as is correct. Thus C.
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Should be B.
Looks like a question checking for differences b/w 'like' and 'as'.
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Yup. It does.
Should still be B. 'X is one of the factors that keep Y from blah blah'... At least thats how I see it... 
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Can someone tell me why the stress is on 'Interest rates' and not 'factors'? That is the point of contention... 
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Re: SC: Housing Market [#permalink]
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X & Y wrote: A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade.
A. that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade
B. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
C. that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade
D. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like earlier in the decade
E. that keep the housing market from spiraling out of control, like it did earlier in the decade
I'll go with B.
- Subject verb agreement between "factors" and "keep"
- Uses "as" vs. "like"
Like is used to compare two objects. As is used to compare clauses/phrases
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^ C ^
paddyboy wrote: Can someone tell me why the stress is on 'Interest rates' and not 'factors'? That is the point of contention... is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade.
Pay attention to the bold "it". We have it in the latter part so it means that we will modify the interest rate not factors ..
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I thought 'it' was for the housing market! Total miss 
Thanks Selene...
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singular - keeps
Between A and C choose C
as in the earlier decade is better than like in the earlier decade
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Will go with C.
Usually in cases where you see somethign like one of the factors/companies......... the subject is usually plural but in this case the thing to be noted is that we are talking about the interest rate not in general about the factors.
Hence its singular and keeps........
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Definitely B
Subject is plural so should be the verb. It is for market so it is irrelevant here. Furthemore if you regard the rate as the subject
, the sentence become meaningless. That's it, if the rate is one of the factors and the rest of the sentence is describing the rate, so one of what factors is rate. Just factors in general?
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deowl wrote: Definitely B
Subject is plural so should be the verb. It is for market so it is irrelevant here. Furthemore if you regard the rate as the subject
, the sentence become meaningless. That's it, if the rate is one of the factors and the rest of the sentence is describing the rate, so one of what factors is rate. Just factors in general? :lol:
agree with B
"factors keep the housing market from spiraling out of control"
not "one keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control"
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agree with B
"factors keep the housing market from spiraling out of control"
not one keeps..
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we need 'keeps' as the interest rate is only ONE of the factors. B,D,E --> out
A is out as it uses 'like' inappropriately.
C is best.
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Cool - people are totally divided... now whats the OA 
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It's C.
A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade.
Key is "it".
Also we need "as" to compare the clauses.
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freetheking wrote: deowl wrote: Definitely B Subject is plural so should be the verb. It is for market so it is irrelevant here. Furthemore if you regard the rate as the subject , the sentence become meaningless. That's it, if the rate is one of the factors and the rest of the sentence is describing the rate, so one of what factors is rate. Just factors in general? agree with B "factors keep the housing market from spiraling out of control" not "one keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control" " it" here is used for " A higher interest rate".
So we need singular verb " keeps" for singular subject " A higher interest rate".
So C.
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b14kumar wrote: It's C.
A higher interest rate is only one of the factors, albeit an important one, that keeps the housing market from spiraling out of control, as it did earlier in the decade.
Key is "it".
Also we need "as" to compare the clauses.
Regards,
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Nope, this is wrong.
The sentence could be rephrased as follows:
The housing market spiraled out of control earlier in the decade, but now
several factors, one of which is a higher interest rate, keep it from doing so.
If you try to rephrase the sentence in your way, you will find it completely meaningless.
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Re: SC: Housing Market [#permalink]
16 Jun 2006, 07:15
I haven't posted in verbal for a long time but couldn't help to chime in for this one.
A higher interest rate is one of the factors that ...
The clause led by "that" is modifying the word "factors". In other words the verb needs to be plaural. Example:
Paul is one of the people who love to read.
This eliminate the options A and C.
The second point being tested is like vs as. "like" normally is used to give examples. "as" is more appropriate here.
Therefore B would be the correct answer, in my opinion.
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OA is B. Great Explanations 
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