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Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time [#permalink]
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Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days "are included in earnings, than" to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.
(A) are included in earnings, than
(B) are included in earnings, as
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay
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IMO B, ...as much.....as is idiomatic and are is the right plural usage...
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E should be the answer; idiomatic 'as much as'
Value is singular so 'is' needed
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B seems to be correct [#permalink]
24 Aug 2005, 15:27
as much ... as to is correct.
E - the is should refer to days, so it should be are not is.
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E.
A and B are wrong because value is singular.
C is wrong because twice as much.....as is the correct idiom.
D is wrong because paid should be present tense
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E is it
The value require singular verb" is included" so a and b are out
As much as: idiom and there is no need to change the mood from active to passive in D
modon wrote: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days "are included in earnings, than" to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.
(A) are included in earnings, than
(B) are included in earnings, as
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay
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ranga
are shouldn't be used because here subject is value which is singular.
Am I right?
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E
- need to use "is" and not "are"
- need to follow idiom : "as much...as"
Still D and E
D is weird and incorrect : "as is paid to part-time employees"
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Even I will go for (E) is included in earnings, as they pay
What the correct answer?
E because :
As much as is idiomatic
They pay clears who and what ...
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B should be the answer [#permalink]
26 Aug 2005, 11:20
E cannot be the answer because of the improper usage of verb (it should be plural rather than singular). The value of benifits, sick days and paid vacation days are three different things.
Since they together prove that the full time employees are paid more, the verb used should be 'are' and not 'is'.
Since B also satisfies the parallelism, I guess, it should be the answer.
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modon wrote: ranga
are shouldn't be used because here subject is value which is singular.
Am I right?
My bad..got confused i guess....Confused b't C and E what is the OA and OE if possible?
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OA is E
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