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The Sales Manager of Info Tech reported average profits in its quarter Updated on: 13 Apr 2020, 02:02
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The Sales Manager of Info Tech reported average profits in its quarterly sales, as much because of its sales of a year earlier being so bad as that other vendors were getting a head start on buying their annual stocks.

A. of its sales of a year earlier being so bad as that
B. of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because
C. of its sales a year earlier being so bad because
D. their sales a year earlier had been so bad because
E. its sales of a year earlier were as bad as that
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Hello Experts,

Can you please help me with this question? How should i eliminate other choices and get the right answer?

Also why we haven't used the idiom" As x as Y"?

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Hello Experts,

Can you please help me with this question? How should i eliminate other choices and get the right answer?

Also why we haven't used the idiom" As x as Y"?

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Hi Lucky1994,

You may want to look at the official question that this question is based on instead.
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The Sales Manager of Info Tech reported average profits in its quarterly sales, as much because of its sales of a year earlier being so bad as that other vendors were getting a head start on buying their annual stocks.

A. of its sales of a year earlier being so bad as that
B. of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because
C. of its sales a year earlier being so bad because
D. their sales a year earlier had been so bad because
E. its sales of a year earlier were as bad as that
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If we analyse the choices we found that 2 choices contain "their" in starting and 3 choices contain "its" in the starting.

We can't use their here because its "sales manager sales" so we need to use "its" not "their". Therefore, eliminate "b and d".

Now we are left with three choices.

E- can be eliminated for wrong comparison – Sales compare to Other vendore.

Now we are left with two choice.

I chose "C" because of parallelism but I am not sure. Also the structure of the sentence is troubling me anyone. Please elaborate these two choices.

Thanks in advance
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The Sales Manager of Info Tech reported average profits in its quarterly sales, as much because of its sales of a year earlier being so bad as that other vendors were getting a head start on buying their annual stocks.

A. of its sales of a year earlier being so bad as that
B. of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because
C. of its sales a year earlier being so bad because
D. their sales a year earlier had been so bad because
E. its sales of a year earlier were as bad as that
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If we analyse the choices we found that 2 choices contain "their" in starting and 3 choices contain "its" in the starting.

We can't use their here because its "sales manager sales" so we need to use "its" not "their". Therefore, eliminate "b and d".

Now we are left with three choices.

E- can be eliminated for wrong comparison – Sales compare to Other vendore.

Now we are left with two choice.

I chose "C" because of parallelism but I am not sure. Also the structure of the sentence is troubling me anyone. Please elaborate these two choices.

Thanks in advance[/quote]


Hi jrk23
Sorry but your answer is wrong. The correct ans is D
The idiom should be 'as much because,,,,,, as because'; Choice 4 is the only one that flaunts it. All others use unparallel and unidiomatic expressions.

Feel free to give kudos if you like the explaination.
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The Sales Manager of Info Tech reported average profits in its quarterly sales, as much because of its sales of a year earlier being so bad as that other vendors were getting a head start on buying their annual stocks.

A. of its sales of a year earlier being so bad as that
B. of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because
C. of its sales a year earlier being so bad because
D. their sales a year earlier had been so bad because
E. its sales of a year earlier were as bad as that

If we analyse the choices we found that 2 choices contain "their" in starting and 3 choices contain "its" in the starting.

We can't use their here because its "sales manager sales" so we need to use "its" not "their". Therefore, eliminate "b and d".

Now we are left with three choices.

E- can be eliminated for wrong comparison – Sales compare to Other vendore.

Now we are left with two choice.

I chose "C" because of parallelism but I am not sure. Also the structure of the sentence is troubling me anyone. Please elaborate these two choices.

Thanks in advance
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Hi jrk23
Sorry but your answer is wrong. The correct ans is D
The idiom should be 'as much because,,,,,, as because'; Choice 4 is the only one that flaunts it. All others use unparallel and unidiomatic expressions.

Feel free to give kudos if you like the explaination.[/quote]




Correct answe is "C". Please check and revert.

As their in the choice is not correct.
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