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With adjustments for inflation,the relative cost of welfare [#permalink]
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With adjustments for inflation,the relative cost of welfare benefits has been dropping since 1973, resulting in the welfare program now costing about 3 billion real dollars less to implement than in 1973 (a)resulting in the welfare program now costing about 3 billion real dollars less to implement than (b)resulting in the welfare program now costing about 3 billion real dollars less to implement as (c)resulting in the welfare program now costing about 3 billion real dollars less to implement than it did (d)and as a result the welfare program now costs about 3 billion real dollars less to implement than it did (e)and the welfare program now costs about 3 billion real dollars less as a result to implement than
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is the answer C? the que is tough no doubt, but i'll try to post my reason after u tell me wat the right answer is
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A - Not very clear. Comparisons are made between the costs to implement. So elliptical verb is required.
B - Wrong Idiom - "as"
C - Keep
D and E - modifies te meaning of the sentence.
Hence "C"
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OA is not C .. 
have another try ...
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D it is ..
can anyone explain why not C
since participle phrase/clause modifies the idea of the main clause
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C is correct as all others answers compare cost with 1973. Only C removes this ambiguity by using than it did
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Re: Welfare benefits [#permalink]
26 Jul 2005, 18:50
D. "it: in C is not correct. it should be they. also need "than" after less to make the comparision logical.
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Re: Welfare benefits [#permalink]
14 Sep 2011, 02:58
IMO the answer should be D.
In the sentence there is a comma after the sentence "... dropping since 1973," hence "resulting" should not be used. "Resulting" could have been used if there were no comma.
Hence D suits more logically to the sentence fulfilling "... dropping since 1973, and as a result..."
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Re: Welfare benefits [#permalink]
14 Sep 2011, 04:19
Notwithstanding that the OA is D, I have my reasons to rebut it. After all, both C and D use ‘it’; they also use ' than it did’; the difference lies in D being a compound sentence and C being a simple sentence with a participial modifier The use of a participle modifier is legal and appropriate in order to modify the theme of the dropping cost, which is causing the reduction in costs now. A participle can modify either the noun or the idea lying before it. The question is whether you will use a simple sentence or a more verbose compound sentence to express a phenomenon. I reckon a simple sentence is to be logically preferred over the compound sentence. Hence, I prefer C. However, please appreciate that both ' resulting' and ' costing' are participles and not gerunds. Again, we cannot use resulting without the comma before that since that will mean wrongly that resulting modifies 1973, giving an absurd meaning.
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14 Sep 2011, 11:38
IMO C I do not understand how D is a right possibility. Can someone please summarize the sentence as you can see it as a right option? I do not understand how - and +"," are going together in that sentence. thanks.
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Re: Welfare benefits [#permalink]
14 Sep 2011, 13:55
I carelessly picked C, but I understand why D is better.
I think is a matter of meaning. In option D "and as a result the welfare program now costs about 3 billion real dollars less to implement than it did "cost not costing" in 1973
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