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Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by robbing workers of the special Skills that were once their most important strength than by the elimination of jobs.

(A) than by the elimination of jobs
(B) rather than by the elimination of a job
(C) than by eliminating jobs
(D) as by the elimination of a job
(E) as by eliminating jobs
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Re: Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by [#permalink] New post   03 Dec 2019, 09:25
I think the answer choice is D.
I was looking for the connection 'as much as'. In this case, the sentence had 'as much .... as'. Hence, I went between D or E.
Looking at the sentence, I wanted to follow some parallel structure. Hence, when I saw 'position of labor' connect with 'elimination of jobs', I decided that D is the best choice.
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Re: Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by [#permalink] New post   05 Dec 2019, 08:35
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Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by robbing workers of the special Skills that were once their most important strength than by the elimination of jobs.


The above should follow the idiomatic structure:
X as much by Y as by Z

Eliminate A, B and C which do not follow the idiomatic structure.

(D) as by the elimination of a job
(E) as by eliminating jobs

These two choices lead us to look at parallelism. The prepositional phrase of the special Skills that were once their most important strength can be excised to simplify

Quote:
X as much by robbing workers...as by Y.


Need parallelism with the -ing form. E
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Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by [#permalink] New post   05 Dec 2019, 09:14
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Ans E: E maintains the correct comparative idiomatic structure as ... as and the prepositional parallelism of 'by robbing workers' and 'by eliminating jobs'.
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Re: Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by [#permalink] New post   16 Dec 2019, 05:53
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DinoPen wrote:
I think the answer choice is D.
I was looking for the connection 'as much as'. In this case, the sentence had 'as much .... as'. Hence, I went between D or E.
Looking at the sentence, I wanted to follow some parallel structure. Hence, when I saw 'position of labor' connect with 'elimination of jobs', I decided that D is the best choice.


The correct answer is E.
'as much.... as' is the right idiom.
And the parallel elements are 'by robbing workers' & 'by eliminating jobs'. 'position of labor' is outside the idiom.
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Re: Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by [#permalink] New post   06 Mar 2020, 04:17
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This is an interesting question. If you have practiced enough of comparison questions, you can sense this error creeping up on you from a mile away!

So let’s get to the main point here in the underlined portion – the idiom being used here is ‘as much by… as’.

This means that you can eliminate options A, B and C within seconds. This leaves us with Options D and E.

Now, these two options are testing the parallelism of two items – robbing and eliminating.

The non-underlined portion is ‘by robbing’ – so the corresponding form for 'eliminate' is ‘by eliminating’.
We can safely eliminate Option D.

This leaves us with Option E which is the best option.

Hope this helps!
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Re: Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by [#permalink] New post   14 Oct 2020, 05:35
DinoPen wrote:
I think the answer choice is D.
I was looking for the connection 'as much as'. In this case, the sentence had 'as much .... as'. Hence, I went between D or E.
Looking at the sentence, I wanted to follow some parallel structure. Hence, when I saw 'position of labor' connect with 'elimination of jobs', I decided that D is the best choice.

Robbing...Eliminating.
Position isn’t related to eliminating, hence E and not D.
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Re: Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by [#permalink] New post   27 Apr 2022, 10:26
Bunuel wrote:
Automation has undermined the traditional position of labor as much by robbing workers of the special skills that were once their most important strength than by the elimination of jobs.

(A) than by the elimination of jobs
(B) rather than by the elimination of a job
(C) than by eliminating jobs
(D) as by the elimination of a job
(E) as by eliminating jobs


A, B, and C do not follow the idiom "as much by robbing" as by Y

D is in the passive voice "the elimination of a job" and incorrectly says job instead of jobs when we have multiple workers

E follows the idiom "as much by robbing workers" as by eliminating jobs"
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