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The school board decided to reduce the number of children attending the after-school program, to increase the amount of time allocated for each mathematics or science class, and they decided to make the money allocated to extra-curricular activities larger.
(A) program, to increase the amount of time allocated for each mathematics or science class, and they decided to make the money allocated to extra-curricular activities larger
(B) program, to make greater the amount of time allocated for each mathematics or science class, and they decided to make the money allocated to extra-curricular activities greater
(C) program, to make greater the amount of time allocated for each mathematics or science class, and it decided to make the money allocated to extra-curricular activities greater
(D) program and to increase the amount of time allocated for each mathematics or science class, and it decided to make the money allocated to extra-curricular activities greater
(E) program, and to increase the amount of time allocated for each mathematics or science class, and to make the money allocated to extra-curricular activities larger
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Re: The school board decided to reduce the number of children
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09 Dec 2005, 10:20
D is best.
A and E are eliminated. Greater should be used because money is a countable noun.
In B, they is incorrect because the school board is singular.
In C, time is not a countable noun so greater should not be used.
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Re: The school board decided to reduce the number of children
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09 Dec 2005, 13:14
kdhong wrote:
D is best. A and E are eliminated. Greater should be used because money is a countable noun. In B, they is incorrect because the school board is singular. In C, time is not a countable noun so greater should not be used.
IMHO money is almost always a non countable noun.
To test that a noun is countable or not, fill the noun in sentence below:
One _________, two _______S, three _________S
Time is sometimes countable and sometimes non-countable. Just fill in the above and see.
However nakib's explanation seems pretty reasonable. Thanks a lot dear.
If "C" would have been A, "it"....B, and it ...C" then my explantion seems correct.
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10 Dec 2005, 08:57
nakib77 wrote:
lets see, first of all the board is a collective noun therby requires a singular pronoun.
so A an B is out. in C the use of to make greater the amount is incorrect.
so we are left with D and E.
now if we look at the sentece structure we will see that the board decided to reduce....... and to increase ...... , and decided to......
D uses this construction correcty.
E is wrong because in a list it uses 2 and.
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OA id D.
OE:
Spot the Error:
The error is indicated by the Listof things the school board decided to do
Rule and Fix:
A list must be of all nouns or all verbs and must be balanced. The current list (decided to reduce ... to increase...and they decided to) is not grammatically similary (parallel) and must be corrected.
POE:
A, B and C all have the list error.
Chunk and Compare:
Both D and E make the list two seperate list (decided to reduce and to increase... one list.. the other list "board decided to x and it decided to y).
Compare D to E.
D uses "make the money allocated greater" but E uses "make the money allocated larger" larger defines physical size where greater more clearly defines amounts or relative size.
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10 Dec 2005, 11:47
I will go for D but I dont 100% agree with the OE...
first of all , board is a singular noun...so we need "it" after the IC to correctly refer to the board....all other choices use they...which is incorrect. also D maintains ||ism while E breaks it by using a depending Clause after "and"....after "and" we should have an IC.
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