The greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease belongs not to the dynamic executive, male or female, nor the single mother, but the married woman who holds a full-time job while still performing most household tasks at home.


A. greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease belongs not to the dynamic executive, male or female, nor the single mother,

B. greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease is not risked by the dynamic executive, male or female, or the single mother,

C. one who most risks developing stress-related heart disease is not the dynamic executive, male or female, or the single mother

D. one who risks the greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease is not the dynamic executive, male or female, nor the single mother

E. one most risking the greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease is neither the dynamic executive, male nor female, nor the single mother

Here The is used and 'the' is always followed by superlative, so use of greater(comparitive form) is incorrect, ruling out options A,B,D
E is out because of use of nor instead of 'or' in male nor female
Answer is C

The one who most risks developing stress-related heart disease is

not the dynamic executive, male or female, or the single mother
but the married woman

who holds a full-time job while still performing most household tasks at home.

Answer must be (C) for correct Idiomatic usage Not X but Y, further (C) uses correct parallelism structure....
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Diction,proper usage.

A: You don't say "chance of developing stress-related heart disease" belongs to x y or z, especially when are other better options available. You are not showing ownership here, to show that x belongs to y.INCORRECT.

B. greater chance and risk has almost similar meaning, both convey degree of something, hence using both of these is redundant.INCORRECT.

C. Best option. Keep.CORRECT.

D." risks" and " greater chance" are redundant IMO, also sentence is wordy compared to C. "Nor" is incorrect without neither.INCORRECT.

E. " Neither - Nor - Nor " improper. C is certainly better than E. INCORRECT.

Ans-C

Hope it's clear.
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The greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease belongs not to the dynamic executive, male or female, nor the single mother, but the married woman who holds a full-time job while still performing most household tasks at home.


A. greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease belongs not to the dynamic executive, male or female, nor the single mother, -- correct idiom should have been "not to X, but to Y"

B. greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease is not risked by the dynamic executive, male or female, or the single mother, -- unnecessary passive construct in underlined part

C. one who most risks developing stress-related heart disease is not the dynamic executive, male or female, or the single mother -- CORRECT, "not" is commonly applied as negation component. "one who most risks.." correctly describes women.

D. one who risks the greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease is not the dynamic executive, male or female, nor the single mother -- "risk the chance" doesn't make sense. "not X nor Y" is not correct idiom

E. one most risking the greater chance of developing stress-related heart disease is neither the dynamic executive, male nor female, nor the single mother -- too many "nor"s and same error as D

So, the answer is C