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The original says - housing prices in counties - while choices B and E say housing prices of counties, as if the counties themselves are up for sale. Wrong intent and so let’s drop them.


C and D – Where is the mention of counties in the choices? What a miss?

A.is what is left out; We have to accept it grudgingly as the tolerable among the bads, although the sore created by the expression yet, being, still, low and enough is hard to heal
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I went with C.
But later on realized its missing something.

Let's see ... I'll go with A
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isnt "some of them at significant rates" modifying 'counties' in A??? Please correct me if am wrong....
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The original says - housing prices in counties - while choices B and E say housing prices of counties, as if the counties themselves are up for sale. Wrong intent and so let’s drop them.


C and D – Where is the mention of counties in the choices? What a miss?

A.is what is left out; We have to accept it grudgingly as the tolerable among the bads, although the sore created by the expression yet, being, still, low and enough is hard to heal
Well explained. A it is. I went for D but then realized the answer is missing "in counties".
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Why is "of counties" wrong?

And even if it is, I would argue that it's a far less significant error than the crime against English that is the original sentence.
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Good one, Nice explanation by Daagh.....though i opted for B
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The original says - housing prices in counties - while choices B and E say housing prices of counties, as if the counties themselves are up for sale. Wrong intent and so let’s drop them.


C and D – Where is the mention of counties in the choices? What a miss?

A.is what is left out; We have to accept it grudgingly as the tolerable among the bads, although the sore created by the expression yet, being, still, low and enough is hard to heal
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"The housing prices in various counties, some of them at significant rates, are increasing just as the interest rates are, yet being still low enough to avoid an inflationary effect."

This is not grammatically correct. Where did this question come from?
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Another flaw I think in A is that the sentence after ", yet" is not an independent clause although the sentence before it is an independent clause.

Not sure why A is the OA. Serious grammatical flaw...
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there is a similar question, but the answer is B because that question has the second half of sentence.
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I see that the OA is B. Changed OA. Need Experts to revise this question, then change OA later.
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Hi,
Can you please explain the errors in the choice and how you came to the right answer.



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