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The electric water heater may be more modern than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as it does to use gas.
A. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as it does to use gas.
B. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as using gas.
C. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that to use electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as to use gas.
D. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as using gas does.
E. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity costs almost three times as much as using gas to heat water.
A. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as it does to use gas.
B. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as using gas.
C. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that to use electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as to use gas.
D. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as using gas does.
E. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity costs almost three times as much as using gas to heat water.
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There are two phrases in this sentence that should tip you off that the issue here is comparison. The first is the phrase more…than, which is used to compare the electric water heater and the gas water heater. The second is the phrase as much as, which is used to compare how much it costs to heat water using electricity and how much it costs to heat water using gas. The first comparison is completely parallel. The second comparison, which is much more complicated, correctly compares exactly the same type of thing because the verb does at the end of the sentence is understood to mean costs. However, the gerund phrase using electricity is paired with the verb phrase to use gas. Since these phrases are not parallel, eliminate Choice A and go through your other choices checking for parallel comparisons.
Because there is no verb attached to the phrase using gas, Choice B compares how much it costs to heat water using electricity with using gas itself; the phrase using gas needs a verb to parallel costs from earlier in the comparison. Eliminate Choice B. Choice C can be eliminated because it has a similar problem; though the sentence makes use of infinitive verbs (to + verb) rather than gerund phrases, the comparison is still between how much it costs to heat water using electricity and using gas itself. Choice D is awkward but correct; the verb does at the end takes the place of the verb costs from earlier in the comparison. While it seems less awkward than the other choices, Choice E compares how much it costs to use electricity with using gas to heat water. Again, the notion of cost has been lost in the second half of the comparison, rendering the sentence nonparallel. Eliminate Choice E and pick Choice D, the correct answer.
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There are two phrases in this sentence that should tip you off that the issue here is comparison. The first is the phrase more…than, which is used to compare the electric water heater and the gas water heater. The second is the phrase as much as, which is used to compare how much it costs to heat water using electricity and how much it costs to heat water using gas. The first comparison is completely parallel. The second comparison, which is much more complicated, correctly compares exactly the same type of thing because the verb does at the end of the sentence is understood to mean costs. However, the gerund phrase using electricity is paired with the verb phrase to use gas. Since these phrases are not parallel, eliminate Choice A and go through your other choices checking for parallel comparisons.
Because there is no verb attached to the phrase using gas, Choice B compares how much it costs to heat water using electricity with using gas itself; the phrase using gas needs a verb to parallel costs from earlier in the comparison. Eliminate Choice B. Choice C can be eliminated because it has a similar problem; though the sentence makes use of infinitive verbs (to + verb) rather than gerund phrases, the comparison is still between how much it costs to heat water using electricity and using gas itself. Choice D is awkward but correct; the verb does at the end takes the place of the verb costs from earlier in the comparison. While it seems less awkward than the other choices, Choice E compares how much it costs to use electricity with using gas to heat water. Again, the notion of cost has been lost in the second half of the comparison, rendering the sentence nonparallel. Eliminate Choice E and pick Choice D, the correct answer.
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tough motherducker...undoubtedly..
meaning: EWH more modern than GWH
using E almost = 3X as using G.
now...parallelism is an issue here...
we have USING then correct verb costs, then we have a contrast idiom as much as. When using such an idiom, we need to have it in X as much as Y form. since we have X in a noun form then verb, the same must be in Y part.
A. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as it does to use gas.
parallelism error...
B. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as using gas.
this one has a very subtle error...
all good except for the last part...2 meanings can be understood...
Using E to heat costs as much as using gas does
Using E to heat water costs as much as using gas..?!?!?
C. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that to use electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as to use gas.
to use costs - kind of awkward...+ missing of the verb in Y part might lead to ambiguities..
D. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity to heat water costs almost three times as much as using gas does.
this one seems to rectify the error in B...this one is a more stronger answer choice than B and C!
E. than the gas water heater, but those homeowners who understand the value of a dollar are aware that using electricity costs almost three times as much as using gas to heat water.
using electricity costs almost three times...wait! where is to heat water? now the sentence implies that in general, using electricity costs more...out!
D is so far the best answer.
