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Poor people, who already purchase the cheapest food items--starches, frankfurters, beans, and the like--have no items that they can economize when there is a rise in the overall price of food.

(b) on which there can be economizing when there is a rise in teh overall price of food
(c) for economizing if there will be an overall rise in the price of food
(d) on which to economize when overall prices of food rise
(e) that can be economical when overall prices of food rise



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Poor people, who already purchase the cheapest food 19 Jun 2007, 05:38
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Poor people, who already purchase the cheapest food items--starches, frankfurters, beans, and the like--have no items that they can economize when there is a rise in the overall price of food.

(b) on which there can be economizing when there is a rise in teh overall price of food
(c) for economizing if there will be an overall rise in the price of food
(d) on which to economize when overall prices of food rise
(e) that can be economical when overall prices of food rise
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go with E:

"there be a rise" is not concise A B C are out
"on which to economizes" is wrong "on which" can only be used in relative clause D is out

E is correct
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Poor people, who already purchase the cheapest food 19 Jun 2007, 15:22
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can you detail why E is error free and what the exact errors are for A-D?
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in E, 'economical' wrongly modifies 'items', we want the sentence to say that the people are being economical not the items!

D is the correct answer. The sentence is saying poor people have nothing on which to cut back on since they are already buying the cheapest foods.
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Poor people, who already purchase the cheapest food 20 Jun 2007, 07:10
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I think E is right. economically correctly modifies Items.
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This was a tough one. OA is D.

Originally I excluded "D" because of the phrase "on which". My thought was the rule that "which" is usually wrong unless it follows a comma (modifier).
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B& C out b'coz "there" doesn't have antecident.

D is the answer and makes the sentence meaning clear

D. Poor people, have no items on which to economize

E. Poor people, have no items that can be economical

D brings out the meaning clearly
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Good one.. The answer is option (E)



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