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The United States government employs a much larger proportion of women 28 Oct 2019, 06:15
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The United States government employs a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than any government.

(A) a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than any
(B) a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than does any other
(C) much larger proportions of women in trade negotiations than has any
(D) proportions of women in trade negotiations that are much larger than any
(E) proportions of women in trade negotiations that are much larger than any other
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The United States government employs a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than any government.

(A) a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than anymissing a verb parallel to employs
(B) a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than does any otherRightly adds does parallel to employs
(C) much larger proportions of women in trade negotiations than has any has is a helping verb and it misses the main verb
(D) proportions of women in trade negotiations that are much larger than anyproportions is incorrect since we need to tell a comparison . proportions is missing the other comparison
(E) proportions of women in trade negotiations that are much larger than any othermissing parallel verb and proportions is incorrect
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The United States government employs a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than any government.

the sentence has a comparison error it literally means the US govt employs a much larger prop of women than it employs the government- therefore we need to correct this error


(B) a much larger proportion of women in trade negotiations than does any other
option B nails the comparison!

(C) much larger proportions of women in trade negotiations than has any
the verbs should be parallel "has" creates a verb tense error

(D) proportions of women in trade negotiations that are much larger than any
same comparison error as in option A

(E) proportions of women in trade negotiations that are much larger than any other
option E literally means proportions of women are larger than any government- illogical
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The United States government employs a much larger proportion of women 28 Oct 2019, 18:30
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Here I want to add why B is correct.

Let's understand with below explanation.
x is better student than any student in class.
In above statement, any includes x too. And how x can be better than himself.
Therefore, statement can be re-written as-x is better than any other student in class.

So here "any other" is important.
Only B and E follow this rule.

Now between a proportion and proportions of woman- former is correct.
B is winning choice.
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In this sentence, we can quickly make out by looking at the use of ‘than’ that there is a comparison being made here.

Firstly, it seems like the comparison is between one particular government and a general set of governments.
Therefore, it must have ‘other’ qualifying the word ‘government’ towards the end. Gvij2017 explains this in his previous post.

Secondly, certain words are omitted here because they are implied – in this case, the sentence is really saying: The US government employs more women than any other government employs women.
This can be more simply expressed as:
The US government employs more women than any other government does.

This is why Option B is the best choice.

Hope this helps!
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