hiteshahire22 wrote:
There are pressing reasons to call for a microeconomics of greater empirical veracity and more methodological scrupulousness, rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
A. rather than greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
B. thereby of a greater descriptive and analytical power.
C. leading to greater descriptive as well as analytical powers.
D. thus, greater descriptive and analytical powers.
E. therefore a greater descriptive and analytical power.
Though I got it wrong initially for interpreting it incorrectly, I would like to pour by 2 cents to this.
Meaning Analysis: There is a need for a better empirical truthfulness and methodological integrity, there is also a need for greater descriptive and analytical powers. It’s not that one thing is required rather than the other one. Thus, a contrast is actually wrong. We are more likely looking for a cause and effect relationship.
Option A presents the contrast and hence is wrong.
Option B clearly states that one thing leads to another. Hence, this option is correct.
Option C puts more emphasis on greater descriptive powers than analytical powers. The use of “as well as” puts more importance on the first instance than the second. Thus, the meaning is slightly getting distorted here.
Option D and E are using incorrect construction by dropping “of”.
The correct statement is “There are pressing reasons to call for X ..thereby of Y”.
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