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Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.

(A) are included in earnings, than
(B) are included in earnings, as
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay

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ok i gave it a glance n' got this one wrong.
Pls somebody explain I chose ARE over IS b'coz three sublects are joined with an "and"..doesnt this requre a plural verb?
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Originally posted by tejal777 on 24 Aug 2009, 17:38.
Last edited by Bunuel on 12 Nov 2019, 05:51, edited 4 times in total.
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   25 Aug 2009, 03:57
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tejal777 wrote:
514. Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.
(A) are included in earnings, than
(B) are included in earnings, as
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay

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ok i gave it a glance n' got this one wrong.
Pls somebody explain I chose ARE over IS b'coz three sublects are joined with an "and"..doesnt this requre a plural verb?


This is what GMAT does. It plays tricks with you.
First of all, there is some modification in question. the underlined part starts from a differently. Here is the question :

Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues

Now, to solve this one, the first thing you need to look is for the idiom "as much.... as" to complete. Lets look at the options. Clearly, we can eliminate A & C.

Now, next would be to look at the verbs. Here, the GMAT tricks with giving both "are" and "is in option. The way to find the best answer is to see subject verb agreement. Here, the verb is for subject "value" which is singular. Hence, Option B is eliminated.

Option D unnecessarily changes the tense to a perfect tense.

Option E maintains the tense (simple past) as well the numbers part (Many Corporations) by rightly using "they pay".

Long one eh! Hope it helps. :)
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   24 Aug 2009, 18:18
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"Value of Benefits" is singular. of benefits is a middleman. Get rid of this.

1. That expalains why 'IS'.

2. As needs to be completed by as.

3. Because pay is compared. I will pick up. "They pay"

'E' is my pick..

What is the OA?
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   24 Aug 2009, 20:44
IMO E

at least as much to X as to Y

The s/v agreement: the value....is
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   25 Aug 2009, 04:41
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bhanushalinikhil wrote:
tejal777 wrote:
514. Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.
(A) are included in earnings, than
(B) are included in earnings, as
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay

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OA:E


ok i gave it a glance n' got this one wrong.
Pls somebody explain I chose ARE over IS b'coz three sublects are joined with an "and"..doesnt this requre a plural verb?




This is what GMAT does. It plays tricks with you.
First of all, there is some modification in question. the underlined part starts from a differently. Here is the question :

Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues

Now, to solve this one, the first thing you need to look is for the idiom "as much.... as" to complete. Lets look at the options. Clearly, we can eliminate A & C.

Now, next would be to look at the verbs. Here, the GMAT tricks with giving both "are" and "is in option. The way to find the best answer is to see subject verb agreement. Here, the verb is for subject "value" which is singular. Hence, Option B is eliminated.

Option D unnecessarily changes the tense to a perfect tense.

Option E maintains the tense (simple past) as well the numbers part (Many Corporations) by rightly using "they pay".

Long one eh! Hope it helps. :)


I think "they pay" is not required in option E. Although having it does not cause any harm. What you say?
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   15 Feb 2010, 02:05
I choose E:

1) as mush ... as
2) value ... is
3) parallelism: pay...pay
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   19 Feb 2010, 23:42
Value is singular so is over are so ans is E

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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   17 Jul 2011, 00:19
tejal777 wrote:
514. Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.
(A) are included in earnings, than
(B) are included in earnings, as
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay



Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days is included in earnings, as they pay to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.

Although E is the better than others, the use of 'they pay' is nothing but breaking the parallelism of "they pay twice As much to A as (they pay) to B"
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   13 Nov 2019, 11:28
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between D and E, I picked D

I wonder why is E not considered pronoun ambiguous, since 'they' can refer to both corporations and employees.
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   31 May 2020, 09:53
bhanushalinikhil wrote:
tejal777 wrote:
514. Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.
(A) are included in earnings, than
(B) are included in earnings, as
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay

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OA:E


ok i gave it a glance n' got this one wrong.
Pls somebody explain I chose ARE over IS b'coz three sublects are joined with an "and"..doesnt this requre a plural verb?


This is what GMAT does. It plays tricks with you.
First of all, there is some modification in question. the underlined part starts from a differently. Here is the question :

Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues

Now, to solve this one, the first thing you need to look is for the idiom "as much.... as" to complete. Lets look at the options. Clearly, we can eliminate A & C.

Now, next would be to look at the verbs. Here, the GMAT tricks with giving both "are" and "is in option. The way to find the best answer is to see subject verb agreement. Here, the verb is for subject "value" which is singular. Hence, Option B is eliminated.

Option D unnecessarily changes the tense to a perfect tense.

Option E maintains the tense (simple past) as well the numbers part (Many Corporations) by rightly using "they pay".

Long one eh! Hope it helps. :)


Isn't the correct antecedent of "they " is ambiguous here, because it may also be used to modify plural "employees" ?? Please guide?
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   19 Jun 2020, 07:35
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'as much as' is the right idiom so option a and c can be eliminated. Subject is 'value of benefits', which is singular so 'is should be used. on this basis option b can be eliminated. 'As much as to full employees is not parallel to 'as is paid'. Therefore option d can be eliminated.
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   26 Jun 2020, 22:50
I suppose there is some ambiguity with the antecedent they. It may also modify "employees" . Please suggest.
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   11 Oct 2020, 02:39
rose01 wrote:
between D and E, I picked D

I wonder why is E not considered pronoun ambiguous, since 'they' can refer to both corporations and employees.

It's a general understanding that corporations will be paying and not the employees.

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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   20 Oct 2020, 05:21
in an expression "as much X as Y", X and Y should be parallel. But in the OA, i dont see this parallelism exists.
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   22 Oct 2020, 08:01
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luksri35 wrote:
in an expression "as much X as Y", X and Y should be parallel. But in the OA, i dont see this parallelism exists.


the OA says:
They pay as much to x as they pay to Y.
so it is maintaining parallelism.
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Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   01 Jul 2021, 17:52
This damn verb after a laundry list. Is there any conclusive clue on how to handle this situation?

In the following example, a laundry list took plural verb:
https://gmatclub.com/forum/bluegrass-mu ... 69382.html

"Bluegrass musician Bill Monroe, whose repertory, views on musical collaboration, and vocal style were influential on generations of bluegrass artists..."

The only difference I see is that ONE of the items in this list is plural: "views on musical collaboration". Can I conclude that if one of the items is plural, we go for a plural verb? And if every item is singular, we go for a singular verb?

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Edit: According to the following debate, proximity agreement seems to be the recommendation. The verb should agree with the first item in a list. Unfortunately, in the official question above, this is not the case.
https://english.stackexchange.com/quest ... ingle-verb


Edit 2: According to the following post by mikemcgarry, "The AND Rule" says that the subject of this sentence takes plural verb, that is, regardless of the fact that all of the nouns in the list are singular.
https://magoosh.com/gmat/compound-subje ... e-phrases/

In conclusion, the OA given here is not correct.
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   24 Aug 2022, 04:23
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Why is D wrong?


Hello aryamaagarwal,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the use of the passive construction "as is paid" in Option D makes it inferior to Option E, which uses the active construction "as they pay".

We hope this helps.
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   24 Aug 2022, 10:36
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Why is D wrong?


The only reasonable interpretation of the sentence is that corporations pay twice as much total compensation to their FT employees as they do to their PT employees
Not only does "...as is paid..." break parallelism with the first part, but, the departure from the active-voice construction with subject "most corporations", into the passive voice, actually implies that we're now talking about compensation paid by someone/something OTHER than most corporations—which doesn't make sense.

Still, I doubt that this is an official problem. It should be very plain that the meaning of the sentence is to compare two levels of total compensation paid by the same corporations, but GMAC's problems will make unreasonable interpretations wrong for objective reasons as well.
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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   29 Sep 2023, 23:57
Hi,

A quick question: If the sentence were-> The resolution that X law will benefit the country and that Y law should be abandoned are/is correct. Here-> should we use singular verb or plural verb? Since that is not a preposition and the sentence is also joined by an 'and', I am confused about the verb to be used. Please help here.

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Re: Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees [#permalink] New post   03 Oct 2023, 06:58
#1 split: is Vs. are
is wins, because value is singular
#2 split: than Vs. as
as wins, idiom
#3 split: is paid Vs. they pay
they pay wins, no need for a passive voice (weaker)
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