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The new mayor is certainly more progressive than her [#permalink]
 06 Jan 2010, 07:17
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The new mayor is certainly more progressive than her predecessor, but she is not nearly as efficient.
A) but she is not nearly as efficient
B) but she, however, is not nearly as efficient
C) but she is nearly not as efficient
D) even though she is not nearly as efficient
E) despite being not as efficient
Can some one explain me the difference between A and C? I knew one of these two is the answer but placement of 'not' tricked me.
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imo c..............
nearly adverb is modifying is verb so it should be placed near to verb
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isn't the pronoun "she" ambigous in all of the items except E?
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Will go with A. not is correctly negating the phrase nearly as efficient. not as efficient is correct but nearly not as efficient doesn't make sense.
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on 2nd thought, E is redundant as well and uses "being" which should avoided. Although i feel the pronoun "she" is still ambiguous, Pick A since it is idiomatically correct: X is not nearly as < adjective> as Y is the "as Y is" portion is usually omitted.
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OA is A ..thanks.
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C; in my view, nearly, qualifies not efficient; adverb precedes-> adjective precedes-> verb but then I am trying to unlearn all NonGMAT grammer like y'll these days 
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nope I'm wrong; "Not Nearly as" is accepted construct ...! so it should be A Guys, check this out; really interesting statistical proof of syntatic references in literature for 'Almost' & 'Nearly' http://www.hf.uio.no/ilos/forskning/kon ... 85-507.pdf (page 10 & 11)
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Nearly is adverb, and it can modify anything but noun. Here it is modifying "as" preposition.
Nearly modifying "not" doesn't make sense.
+1 for A.
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