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10. A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago.
(A) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
(B) and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
(C) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago
(D) to make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago
(E) in making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it as five years ago
I picked correct answer C, but I need to understand why A is wrong here. can some one explain it for me?
I was left with choices A and C, but I thought comparision in A is also correct. "it was" is not automatically implied here?
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
23 Dec 2009, 08:47
wrong comparisons with five yrs ago.... it has to be " than it was five...
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
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chetan2u wrote: wrong comparisons with five yrs ago.... it has to be " than it was five... chetan2u, is 'it was' not implied here? some of the comparisions after 'than' imply these kinda structures right? definitely C is clear for this question, but what if I have some really bad option for C and A stays as it is, can 'A' be eligible?
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
23 Dec 2009, 15:07
B; why not?
should, and make... the argument is speculative not certain.
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
23 Dec 2009, 15:23
DestinyChild wrote: B; why not?
should, and make... the argument is speculative not certain. you have a comma before the 'and make..' ,so you need a subject after the 'and'. So this option is wrong.
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
23 Dec 2009, 18:16
Wrong comparison. Five years ago vs industry's health
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
22 Aug 2010, 15:06
C is best for the correct comparison of economic health with the economic health five years ago.
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
27 Aug 2010, 11:47
I would go with A.
For C - don't you think it is violating 'possessive poison' rule? Pronoun 'it' cannot go inside the 'industry's economic health'. Hence incorrect referent.
Can someone please explain why still C is correct and not A. Thanks.
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
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amp0201 wrote: I would go with A.
For C - don't you think it is violating 'possessive poison' rule? Pronoun 'it' cannot go inside the 'industry's economic health'. Hence incorrect referent.
Can someone please explain why still C is correct and not A. Thanks. It actually does refer to the industry's economic health.. (you are thinking it to intend to industry).. C compares the health now to health 5 years ago... So correct...
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
02 Oct 2010, 21:55
i m still not sure why not option 'B'
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
03 Oct 2010, 00:53
wrong comparison in everyone except C.
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
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likhitverma wrote: i m still not sure why not option 'B' Let me try to explain this to you.. 10. A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars, making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago. (A) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago (B) and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago (C) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago If you analyse choice C, you can notice that the first part of the sentence (A large rise in the number of housing starts in the coming year should boost new construction dollars by several billion dollars) seem to be a cause leading to the effect which is later part of the sentence ( making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago) , in short the answer choice C is the outcome of what has happened in the non underlined part. so , the second part of sentence ( answer choice ) is an outcome of the first part but not an purposefully intended outcome. Whereas , if you see the choice B , the answer choice starts with AND , and this suggests that the first part of the sentence is done with an intention to achieve the objective (answer choice ) and the answer choice has to be an intended outcome not a natural outcome. I know it's very thin line between both.. but if you actually read the same 2/3 times .. you will get the gist of it. I could be wrong in my explanation.. .and if anyone feels my understanding is wrong.... i am open to suggestions.
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Re: A large rise in the number of housing [#permalink]
03 Oct 2010, 02:29
I picked A too, but here goes: Idiomatic usage -- "making it much more robust than before" (sounds okay) "making it much more robust than yesterday" (doesn't sound right) "making it much more robust than it was yesterday" (sounds okay here) Hence I see why C is correct. Correct me if I'm wrong, but that's just how my tongue reads it.
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(C)(A) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago(B) and make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago(C) making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it was five years ago (D) to make the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than five years ago(E) in making the construction industry’s economic health much more robust than it as five years ago
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