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Hi, this question has been posted before, but regarding a different point of grammar, hence starting a new thread. In 2000, a mere two dozen products accounted for half the increase in spending on prescription drugs, a phenomenon that is explained not just because of more expensive drugs but by the fact that doctors are writing many more prescriptions for higher-cost drugs. (A) a phenomenon that is explained not just because of more expensive drugs but by the fact that doctors are writing (B) a phenomenon that is explained not just by the fact that drugs are becoming more expensive but also by the fact that doctors are writing (C) a phenomenon occurring not just because of drugs that are becoming more expensive but because of doctors having also written (D) which occurred not just because drugs are becoming more expensive but doctors are also writing (E) which occurred not just because of more expensive drugs but because doctors have also written The correct answer is B. However, does the verb tense make sense? The phenomenon was in 2000, but it is explained by 2 factors that are happening now? (doctors are writing... drugs are becoming...) Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!
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tcsing wrote: Hi, this question has been posted before, but regarding a different point of grammar, hence starting a new thread.
In 2000, a mere two dozen products accounted for half the increase in spending on prescription drugs, a phenomenon that is explained not just because of more expensive drugs but by the fact that doctors are writing many more prescriptions for higher-cost drugs.
(A) a phenomenon that is explained not just because of more expensive drugs but by the fact that doctors are writing
(B) a phenomenon that is explained not just by the fact that drugs are becoming more expensive but also by the fact that doctors are writing
(C) a phenomenon occurring not just because of drugs that are becoming more expensive but because of doctors having also written
(D) which occurred not just because drugs are becoming more expensive but doctors are also writing
(E) which occurred not just because of more expensive drugs but because doctors have also written
The correct answer is B. However, does the verb tense make sense? The phenomenon was in 2000, but it is explained by 2 factors that are happening now? (doctors are writing... drugs are becoming...)
Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks! here aside the verb tense a lot is a question of meaning ONly B has sense because the phenomenon (by the way singular, phenomena is plural) is caused by the FACT that drugs are more expensive and by the FACT that doctors do something else. 
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09 Jan 2013, 11:38
B Answer choices A, C, D, and E all fail to correctly use the idiom "not just, but also". B is the only answer choice that correctly uses that idiom. The verb tense is correct and makes sense. I hope that helps 
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09 Jan 2013, 22:04
YES, I also think that tense in B is not suitable. But we choose the best.
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09 Jan 2013, 22:29
Thanks for all the help guys!
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Re: In 2000, a mere two dozen products accounted for [#permalink]
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tcsing wrote:
The correct answer is B. However, does the verb tense make sense? The phenomenon was in 2000, but it is explained by 2 factors that are happening now? (doctors are writing... drugs are becoming...)
Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks!
Even I feel that verb tense is not correct. Can an expert reply on the question posed by first poster ?
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14 Jan 2013, 21:42
first thing
the tense in B make me uaeasy. "are writing " and "are more expensive" can go with past tense
pls explain.
second thing
normally we see
not only........ but also
now in oa in this problem. we see
not..........but also
I infer that "not.....but also" is acceptable
though "not only....but" is not acceptable
is my thinking correct?
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01 Mar 2013, 23:55
parallelism and Idiom is what I looked out for. B is the answer choice.
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