Bunuel wrote:
Project SC Butler: Day 44: Sentence Correction (SC2)
For SC butler Questions Click HereAccording to Henry David Thoreau,
the reason a majority is allowed to rule is not that it is more likely to be right, but because it is stronger.
(A) the reason a majority is allowed to rule is not that it is more likely to be right, but because it is stronger
(B) a majority is allowed to rule not because it is more likely to be right, but because it is stronger
(C) the reason for majority rule is not because they are more likely to be right, they are stronger
(D) the majority is allowed to rule because of its strength, not because it is more likely to be right
(E) the reason why the majority rules is that it is strong, not because it is likely to be right
The correct idiom is
"Not X but Y". X & Y must be parallel.
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A, "the reason.... is not that..., but because" is not parallel. Both should either use "that" or "because" in the beginning.
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C, "they" is used which is plural but the subject ("the reason") is singular. "They" is trying to refer to "majority rule", which is also singular and not the subject.
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D we have a parallelism error.
“because of its strength….not because it is more likely” is not parallel. For this choice to be correct it should be modified to "According to Henry, the majority is allowed to rule
because of X, not because of Y." The omission of the
"of" is wrong. If the sentence had read "According to Henry, the majority is allowed to rule because
of its strength, not because of its intelligence, then the sentence would have been correct.
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E, we again have a parallelism error.
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B, proper parallel structure is used. "... not because (it is more likely to be right), but because (it is stronger)." Hence
B should be the correct answer.