cool_jonny009 wrote:
In a recent poll, 86 percent of the public favored a Clean Air Act as strong or stronger than the present act.
The above statement gives clear clues about COMPARISON.
The usage
as strong or stronger than is absolutely incorrect for using the idioms only partially.
The correct idioms are:
as...(strong)...as and comparative form of the verb (stronger) + thanQuote:
(A) a Clean Air Act [color=#]as strong or stronger than[/color]
(D) a Clean Air Act as strong or stronger than is
Both the above options use the idioms only partially. Even a structure
as strong as or stronger than would have been correct but that is missing here.
Quote:
(B) a Clean Air Act that is stronger, or at least so strong as,
Another incorrect idiom:
so .... asQuote:
(C) at least as strong a Clean Air Act as is
When this is read with the whole sentence, the structure is weird.
86 percent of the public favored
at least as strong a Clean Air Act as is the present act.
Quote:
(E) a Clean Air Act at least as strong as
This option is pretty smooth, uses correct idiom, and a shorter version of "as strong as or stronger than"
I would choose
E.