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Independent contractors pay higher taxes, are paid less [#permalink]
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Independent contractors pay higher taxes, are paid less consistently than statutory employees, and, unlike statutory employees, they may freely perform the same type of work for multiple businesses. A taxes, are paid less consistently than statutory employees, and, unlike statutory employees, they may freely B taxes and are paid less consistently than statutory employees; unlike statutory employees, though, independent contractors are free to C taxes and paid less consistently than are statutory employees, but they, unlike statutory employees, are freely allowed to D taxes and are paid less consistently than are statutory employees; in addition, unlike statutory employees, independent contractors can freely E taxes and paid less consistently than are statutory employees; moreover, unlike statutory employees, they are allowed to I marked D as an answer and didnot understand the explanation given " The helping verb to be (appearing here as are) cannot be used to stand for an action verb, so the construction are statutory employees is not parallel to pay higher taxes" . Can someone explain the concept behind not using "are" before "statutory employees in option D ? Also can someone the usage of "though" if already "unlike" is there to show the contrast
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Hi, Let us see if I can help... Here is the full sentence for D: Independent contractors pay higher taxes and are paid less consistently than are statutory employees; in addition, unlike statutory employees, independent contractors can freely perform the same type of work for multiple businesses. I've highlighted in red the 2 pieces that are not paralel. The 'are' with statutory employees should be the same form as the first 3 words, and it is not so we should not have it. It's a tricky question because you have the 'are' repeated, but the first 'are' is not linked to the second one so they do not need to be the same construction. Does that help?!
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Re: Independent contractors pay higher taxes, are paid less [#permalink]
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plumber250 wrote: Hi,
Let us see if I can help...
Here is the full sentence for D:
Independent contractors pay higher taxes and are paid less consistently than are statutory employees; in addition, unlike statutory employees, independent contractors can freely perform the same type of work for multiple businesses.
I've highlighted in red the 2 pieces that are not paralel.
The 'are' with statutory employees should be the same form as the first 3 words, and it is not so we should not have it. It's a tricky question because you have the 'are' repeated, but the first 'are' is not linked to the second one so they do not need to be the same construction.
Does that help?! Ok ... Independent contractors pay higher taxes and are paid less consistently than statutory employees; u mean both attributes (in green color )of Independent contractors are getting compared to the attributes( which are understood in this case) of Statutory employees. did i get right ?
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I do appreciate the wrong sentence structure in D. It should be rather ‘than do statutory employees instead of ‘than are statutory employees’. But in the reported OA B, how good is it to combine a subordinate clause and a main clause with a semicolon?. The second clause is a sub - clause because of the intrusion of the conjunction ‘though” Any reason?
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