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Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two [#permalink]
 09 Jun 2012, 23:25
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Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two decades of economic shifts that have depressed wages of workers with little or no technical skills.A) that have depressed wages of workers with little or no technical skills B) having depressed wages of workers with little or no technical skills C) that have depressed the wages of workers with few or no technical skills D) in which the workers' wages with few or no technical skills have been depressed E) in that workers with few or no technical skills have wages that are depressed
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Re: Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two decade [#permalink]
10 Jun 2012, 01:01
Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two decades of economic shifts that have depressed wages of workers with little or no technical skills.
[strike]A) that have depressed wages of workers with little or no technical skills[/strike] - Eliminate from "little"
[strike]B) having depressed wages of workers with little or no technical skills[/strike] - Eliminate from "having"
C) that have depressed the wages of workers with few or no technical skills
[strike]D) in which the workers' wages with few or no technical skills have been depressed[/strike] - Eliminate from "workers' wages". Also, the original sentence implies that the shifts have depressed the wages. D decreases the significance of the depression of wages through its usage of "which".
[strike]E) in that workers with few or no technical skills have wages that are depressed[/strike] - Eliminate from "in that"
So let's go with C.
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Re: Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two decade [#permalink]
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Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two decades of economic shifts that have depressed wages of workers with little or no technical skills.
A) that have depressed wages of workers with little or no technical skills
INCORRECT: can't say "with little or no technical skills." That's like saying "with little technical skills," it should be with "few technical skills."
B) having depressed wages of workers with little or no technical skills
INCORRECT: again the use of "little" is wrong.
C) that have depressed the wages of workers with few or no technical skills
CORRECT: uses "few"
D) in which the workers' wages with few or no technical skills have been depressed
INCORRECT: is saying that the wages have few or no technical skills
E) in that workers with few or no technical skills have wages that are depressed
INCORRECT: use of "in that" is wrong
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Re: Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two decade [#permalink]
10 Jun 2012, 01:14
For some reason I thought skills weren't countable...
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Re: Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two decade [#permalink]
10 Jun 2012, 10:23
how did you guys decide whether to use few or little, is skill a countable or uncountable noun
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Re: Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two decade [#permalink]
10 Jun 2012, 10:28
I think skills would be countable. For example, "I have one skill (reading)." Or "I have two skills (reading and writing)."
I think skills are countable but the level of skill is not. For example, "He has little skill in reading (his level of reading is poor)."
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21 Jan 2013, 16:26
about this question, I am a little bit skeptical about the fast that skill is considered a countable work. As said before I have the feeling that it could be both considered as countable or uncountable (you can think of the number of "skills" a person has, or "his skills" as a word to mean his "competence" or "his ability' to do the work and in this case it is uncountable). Can somebody clarify this?
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Re: Anti-poverty initiatives have had to contend with two [#permalink]
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Jackouille wrote: about this question, I am a little bit skeptical about the fast that skill is considered a countable work. As said before I have the feeling that it could be both considered as countable or uncountable (you can think of the number of "skills" a person has, or "his skills" as a word to mean his "competence" or "his ability' to do the work and in this case it is uncountable). Can somebody clarify this? Hi Jackouille, Yes, "Skill" can be both countable and uncountable. In the question's context few is correct few would be appropriate. "Skills" in the question are countable; a worker may have accounting skills, computer skills etc.. He has fewer technical skills than I have. -- > correct He has lesser technical skills than I have. -- > incorrect "skills" the plural form of "skill" is almost always used as a countable Consider the sentence - It doesn't take much skill to ride a bicycle with support wheels. -- skill is used as uncountable here Hope it helps. Vercules
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