When the real estate market is uncertain, homeowners are more likely

Question

When the real estate market is uncertain, homeowners are more likely to put money into stocks or certificates of deposit  than into  home improvements.

(A) than into
(B) than they do into
(C) than they are into
(D) as into
(E) as

I am confused now. Please explain.
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ermks279 · Accepted Answer

A is wrong because of wrong Comparison.
In A, comparison seems to be between stock/certificates and home improvements.
In C - What is compared -  Homeowners choice of  stock/certificates  with homeowners choice  of home improvements.

Hope this helps

ermks279 · Answer

When the real estate market is uncertain, homeowners are more likely to put money into stocks or certificates of deposit than into home improvements.
(A) than into
(B) than they do into
(C) than they are into
(D) as into
(E) as

Things tested here are

1) Idiom - More into X than into Y
2) ||ism - Homeowners are more into X..... than they are (Homeowners are) into Y....

hemanthp · Answer

Whats wrong with A? More into X than into Y.

Burnkeal · Answer

Same question. I don't understand why A could not work. I can understand C but it is for me unnecessary to repeat/remind the subject+verb (they are).

hemanthp · Answer

Experts please help out. This is from bellcurves and probably quite important to get it straight before I take my test.

methevoid · Answer

The same question was discussed last month on an another forum that starts with B@#, 
and the original poster of the thread said OA was A.

google up the question and u will get the link to dat discussion.

shine · Answer

IMO A, but I am not sure... OA is A or C?

imania · Answer

I see no good reason to choose C,
I picked A.

geturdream · Answer

I also picked A.. why its wrong.. Can we have some experts' opinion..

devashish · Answer

A is wrong and E is correct. My Reasons are as follows:

Correct idiom is : More X than Y.
Option A says:
Homeowners are more likely to put money  into Stocks  than  into Home Improvements. .
This can be trasnlated to: ... more likely to put money into X than into Y.
 'More X than Y' is not maintained.

Option C says:
Homeowners are more likely to put money into Stocks than Homeowners are into Home Improvements.
This can be translated to ... H are more  likely to put money into X  than  H are   into Y 
 The above maintains the Idiom: 'More X than Y',  although the Subject is repeated in the second part

So answer is C.

Wofford · Answer

Picked C because of the reasoning explained by ermks279

anish319 · Answer

I chose A but clearly see that its C....it comparison + usage of idion.

sumitjain · Answer

Correct idiom "more than"
D and E eliminated.

Comparing actions ...Homeowners are...to put money ... than they do in some other thing
Orange vs Orange
Incorrect: People from ABC company are smarter than XYZ company. 
We are not comparing company here.
Correct: People from ABC company are smarter than (people from) XYZ company.

Small correction: I missed the option B. It's like, I am more likely to do this than do that

Best choice is B.

OA Pls.

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imerial · Answer

Agree about A. If you rephrase the sentence, you get:

Homeowners are more likely to put money into stocks than into home improvements. (which is parallel)

BTW, according to sc-simple-but-tricky-70600.html
OA is B, which can't be right because of "are"

UJs · Answer

wow! no doubt people suggest studying SC from a good source.

1>  We don't know what is the source of this SC.

2>  this question is all over the place, and I see people trying to explain (the answer somehow), and at some places answer is A,in some group its B ,and E is defended by some ?

3>  no comment/suggestion from any Expert ( make me doubt this question even more )

Not a good question to waste time on , and BTW logic to support E is not full proof.

Konstantin1983 · Answer

One more rubbish question from unknown source and with ambigious OA

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