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In a recent poll, 56 percent of teachers and administrators favored an Updated on: 17 Jan 2019, 05:08
Originally posted by ruchi857 on 02 May 2016, 20:59.
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In a recent poll, 56 percent of teachers and administrators favored an attendance policy as strong or stronger than the present policy.

A. an attendance policy as strong or stronger than

B. an attendance policy that is stronger, or at lease so strong as,

C. an attendance policy as strong or stronger that is

D. at least as strong an attendance policy as is

E. an attendance policy at least as strong as

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In a recent poll, 56% of teachers and administrators favored an attendance policy as strong or stronger than the present policy

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1. A (repeated as above)
2. an attendance policy that is stronger, or at least so strong as
3. an attendance policy as strong or stronger than is
4. at least as strong as attendance policy as is
5. an attendance policy at least as strong as

I am not convinced on how "5", the correct option is better than the option no. 1? Explanation mentions wordiness and hence '5' is favorable over '1'.
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Hi,

there are two reasons-
1) 'atleast as strong as' is much better than WORDY 'as strong or stronger than'..
2) we never say 'as strong than', it is always 'as strong as', whenever we are comparing and 2nd 'AS' is missing in option 1..
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I went through your explaination and agree to to your observations. As per the given choices 5 is the best.But it is definitely a very awkward sentence.

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I went through your explaination and agree to to your observations. As per the given choices 5 is the best.But it is definitely a very awkward sentence.

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hi,
just remember that from ACTUALs point of view.. atleast as X as is preferred over as X and Xer than..
even if it were as X as and Xer than, we will prefer atleast as X as.. IT conveys the same meaning in lesser words ...
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