PiyushK wrote:
What is wrong with option D; option D presents a perfect parallelism as well.
Organizers claimed that the rally for public health care drew close to half a million people, but the city officials estimated the amount of people at the rally to be less than 300,000.
(B) the number of people at the rally to be less
(D) that the number of people attending the rally was less (event happened in past and thus "was less" properly represents tense in option D )
I am not able to identify any error in D; Experts kindly shed some light.
PiyushK wrote:
I got the explanation on Mangoosh:
https://magoosh.com/gmat/2013/gmat-idiom ... d-knowing/
Estimate that is not a correct Idiom.
Dear
PiyushK,
First of all, just for reference, the name of my company, "
Magoosh", has no "n" in it.
We did some research, and revised our statement on the verb "estimate" --- under certain circumstance, estimate can take a "that" clause, although the predominate idiom is still
estimate P to be Q. That's an older blog, and I didn't realize we still had a statement on that blog: I went back and edited that blog just now.
I must apologize. I went back and looked at this question, and there was a typo in the question --- it didn't match the TE. Here's how the question should have been:
Organizers claimed that the rally for public health care drew close to half a million people, but the city officials estimated the amount of people at the rally to be less than 300,000.
(A) the amount of people at the rally to be less
(B) the number of people at the rally to be less
(C) the number of people attending the rally at fewer
(D) that the number of people attending the rally was fewer
(E) that the amount of people at the rally was lessNow, it is clear to you that we have only one fully correct answer?
Mike
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