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According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.
A. than
B. than born
C. than they were
D. than there had been
E. than had been born.
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I would go with C. "they" in C clearly refers to babies.
were..were parallelism too..
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winskc wrote: According to public health officials, in 1998 Massachusetts became the first state in which more babies were born to women over the age of thirty than under it.
A. than
B. than born
C. than they were
D. than there had been
E. than had been born.
I am guessing B. C is not clear whether it is women or babies.
more X than Y. A to after born would have been ideal but oh well.
I'll wait for the OA and OE
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this is A
...were born to women over the age of thirty than (to women) under it
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I like A. No reason better than brevity!
What is OA?
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Tricky! I'd go with A, "to women over the age of thirty than (to women) under it." OA?
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OA is A =)
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