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Cynics charge that Major League Baseball lobbied for stadiums with fewer seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.

A. lobbied for stadiums with fewer seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.
B. lobbied for stadiums with less seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.
C. lobbied for stadiums that had fewer seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.
D. lobbied for stadiums that had less seats to reduce supply and increase ticket prices.
E. lobbied for stadiums that had less seats as a means of reducing supply so they could increase ticket prices.


C,D,and E use "Past Perfect Tense" incorrectly.

We are left with A and B.

With Fewer seats and With lesser seats.

Fewer implies "of a smaller number2

Smaller implies " smaller in size, inferior etc."

Thus answer should be "A"
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Why is C wrong? it's using simple past tense only.
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(C) has...."stadiums that had fewer seats "...there is no need of past perfect (had) tense here.

A is flawless.



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