Dungavath wrote:
Please Clarify between answer choice C and D
Hello,
Dungavath. Believe it or not, I think the cause of confusion here stems from the innocent-looking modifier
little. Remove it from consideration, since it is common to all answer choices, and the extraneous verbiage of every answer choice besides the correct one stands out:
Quote:
Despite the recent election of a woman to the office of prime minister, the status of women in Pakistan is little changed from how it was in the last century.
(A) is little changed from how it was
(B) is a little change from how it was
(C) has changed little
(D) has changed little from how it has been
(E) is little changed from the way it was
Consider the barebones sentence:
The status...(A) is changed from how it was
(B) is a change from how it was
(C) has changed
(D) has changed from how it has been
(E) is changed from the way it was
What do any of these prepositional phrases with pronouns add in the way of clarity that answer choice (C) is lacking? The sentence is commenting on the degree of change of something, and
change implies a difference from an earlier point of reference—one that happens to be supplied right after the underlined portion. Rather than get bogged down in pursuing a
could-this-work line of reasoning, why not approach the matter from the other end, asking whether a simple and concise iteration of the sentence gets the job done?
Good luck with your studies.
- Andrew
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