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When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950
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Re: When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950 [#permalink] New post  28 May 2019, 13:04
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I understand the answer is B.

Can someone help me with the use of "there" in this sentence.
The choice is comparing "Some 4000 existed" to "There" as in a location?

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Re: When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950 [#permalink] New post  28 May 2019, 16:22
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I understand the answer is B.

Can someone help me with the use of "there" in this sentence.
The choice is comparing "Some 4000 existed" to "There" as in a location?

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The "some 4,000 existed" is being compared with "one quarter of that [some 4,000]". Yes, "there" means "that place" but in this sentence, the "there" is acting as a phantom subject. The real subject of the last half of the sentence is still drive-ins.... or rather "less than one-quarter as many [drive-ins]."
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Re: When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950 [#permalink] New post  11 Jun 2019, 10:14
I got the answer, but can someone explain isn't 'as many' should always follow 'as' ?
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Re: When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950 [#permalink] New post  15 Jun 2019, 06:09
Hi, could you explain why B is correct and C is incorrect? In option B, "as those in US in late 50's" is implicit. Why are we assuming this is implicit?
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Re: When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950 [#permalink] New post  18 Aug 2019, 20:55
Nice explanations.
Now I will remember the concept here.
Countable/non-countable nouns, and less/few.
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Re: When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950 [#permalink] New post  27 Oct 2019, 11:39
That / it -wrong Plural Drives....
Left with B and D
B more appropriate
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Re: When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950 [#permalink] New post  26 Nov 2020, 06:58
Hello experts,
I would like some help with the answer choice D and more specifically the first part "the number is less" I do understand why the amount in the end is wrong, but "the number is less" should be substituted with "the number is fewer"? It sounds a little bit awkward or is it that number can't be followed by fewer/less and should be followed by other type of words? I'm a little bit confused.
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Re: When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950 [#permalink] New post  30 Nov 2020, 18:52
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Hello experts,
I would like some help with the answer choice D and more specifically the first part "the number is less" I do understand why the amount in the end is wrong, but "the number is less" should be substituted with "the number is fewer"? It sounds a little bit awkward or is it that number can't be followed by fewer/less and should be followed by other type of words? I'm a little bit confused.


D is wrong because of 'less' and 'amount'

Drive-ins are countable and require 'fewer' and 'number'.

We would say 'the number is fewer than one-quarter as many'.
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