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Female political leaders are as competent than their male counterparts.
(A) than their male counterparts
(B) as her male counterparts
(C) as their male counterparts are competent
(D) as their male counterparts
(E) as their male counterparts are
(A) than their male counterparts
(B) as her male counterparts
(C) as their male counterparts are competent
(D) as their male counterparts
(E) as their male counterparts are
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
Female political leaders are as competent than their male counterparts.
(A) than their male counterparts
This answer choice is illogical as well as grammatically incorrect. As cannot be complemented by than because as indicates a similarity or equality between the two things compared, whereas than indicates a difference between them. Here we are dealing with an equal relationship between females and males.
What helps us identify this question as a Comparative question as well as identify the mistake is the following Stop Sign:
- Like, unlike, than, as
(B) as her male counterparts
Although this answer choice fixes the original Comparative error by changing the word than to as because the relationship between the females and males is one of equality and not difference, it is still grammatically incorrect: the pronoun her can refer to singular feminine nouns only, but the noun to which it refers is a plural (Female political leaders).
What helps us identify this Pronoun mistake is the following Stop Sign:
- Any pronoun in the underlined part of the sentence or after the underlined part
(C) as their male counterparts are competent
Although this answer choice fixes the original Comparative error by changing the word than to as because the relationship between the females and males is one of equality and not difference, it is stylistically flawed as it adds the unnecessary word competent which creates redundancy.
(D) as their male counterparts
This answer choice fixes the original Comparative error by changing the word than to as because the relationship between the females and males is one of equality and not difference. It is also stylistically superior as it omits the verb are from the second half of the Comparative structure which is unnecessary here as there is no direct object to the verb are so there is no ambiguity as to what is being compared.
(E) as their male counterparts are
This answer choice correctly complements as with as, but since the comparison is clear, there is no reason to add the conjugated verb are in the second half of the Comparative structure.
Since there's another answer choice that corrects the original mistake but is stronger stylistically, it is preferable to this one. Look for it!
