iamitgoyal wrote:
Independent contractors pay higher taxes, are paid less consistently than statutory employees, and, unlike statutory employees, they may freely perform the same type of work for multiple businesses.
A taxes, are paid less consistently than statutory employees, and, unlike statutory employees, they may freely
B taxes and are paid less consistently than statutory employees; unlike statutory employees, though, independent contractors are free to
C taxes and paid less consistently than are statutory employees, but they, unlike statutory employees, are freely allowed to
D taxes and are paid less consistently than are statutory employees; in addition, unlike statutory employees, independent contractors can freely
E taxes and paid less consistently than are statutory employees; moreover, unlike statutory employees, they are allowed to
I marked D as an answer and didnot understand the explanation given " The helping verb to be (appearing here as are) cannot be used to stand for an action verb, so the construction are statutory employees is not parallel to pay higher taxes" . Can someone explain the concept behind not using "are" before "statutory employees in option D ? Also can someone the usage of "though" if already "unlike" is there to show the contrast
That's a lovely question! Comparisons at their best.
(I still believe that the second part '
in addition to ...' is not a problem in D). I was only worried about the 'are' omitted in B and used in D. Since the the OA is B, i just thought that 'are'
can be removed. But i just discovered that 'are'
MUST BE removed.
Just wanted to share my eureka moment
Here we have two comparisons at play:
1) Independent contractors pay higher taxes than
DO statutory employees
2) Independent contractors are paid less consistently that
ARE statutory employees
By placing the '
are paid less consistently' part later in the sequencing, this question tricks us into thinking that ARE is missing. But this is not the case. If we put '
are' before '
statutory employees', the comparison (1) will suffer. And if we put a '
do', comparison (2) will.
Hence option B keeps both the comparisons happy by removing
any pronoun.
This question goes in my error-log
Please let me know if this reasoning is correct.