bjh wrote:
Samwong wrote:
skamal7 wrote:
Who can modify people alone right..But in option E it modifies Did is that right?
Good catch. Now I remember it. In Thursday with Ron, Ron said that a helping verb is necessary to eliminate ambiguity. Y histou can put the helping verb before or after the subject. However, if there is a noun modifier, then the helping verb needs to precede the the subject. Thus, the official answer is wrong. It should be "...than did people who..."
i agree it's awkward to put "did" between N and its modifier, but should we suspect the OA?
There are certain problems with the OA.
A modifier should generally touch the noun it refers to - flipping the verb and subject would solve this issue. Moreover using a conjunction ("but") to add a prepositional phrase modifier ( "with “white-sounding” names") and a relative clause modifier ( "who sent in resumes showing similar qualifications") is not one of the best practices. The OA would be better it were as follows:
...employers than DID PEOPLE who sent in resumes showing similar qualifications but HAD “white-sounding” names.
Here, the verbs "sent" and "had" are joined with the conjunction "but". (Though this contrast does not make sense, it would at least be grammatically correct. A better construction is given at the end of this post.)
There is one more problem in the sentence (in the non-underlined part). The modifier "with “ethnic-sounding” names" is wrongly placed - it modifies "resumes" instead of "people". Ideally the construction should be:
...found that people with “ethnic-sounding” names who sent in resumes had.....
However the parallelism would then be affected. The complete sentence would be correct if it were as follows:
A recent study, published by the California Bureau of Employment, found that people with “ethnic-sounding” names who sent in resumes had a much more difficult time getting called back from employers than did people with “white-sounding” names who sent in resumes showing similar qualifications .