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31 May 2023, 05:50
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Hello, achloes. No, that iteration of answer choice (B) would be no better, because of what makes no sense in the context of the sentence. Someone earlier in the thread asked what what might reasonably refer to in answer choice (C), and it is something like the amount [that]:
Residents of X pay as much as four times [the amount that] residents of Y pay for grocery items.
If we look at your revised sentence in the same way, we get a redundancy, and there is nothing we can propose that would make the sentence any better without getting rid of of and one of the two parts in red:
Residents of X pay as much as four times the price of [the amount that] the residents of Y pay for grocery items.
Perhaps the issue makes more sense now. Thank you for thinking to ask, and good luck with your studies.
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01 Jun 2023, 04:58
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Simplify and see:
Residents of A pay as much as four times what residents of B pay. ('what' stands for 'the amount')
Residents of A pay as much as four times price of what residents of B pay. (Does it work? What is the meaning of 'price of what'? price of the amount? We can't use both 'price' and 'what')
We can say: Residents of A pay as much as four times the price that residents of B pay.
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