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04 Feb 2010, 13:34
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While larger banks can afford to maintain their own data-processing operations, many smaller regional and community banks are finding that the cost associated with upgrading data-processing equipment and with the development and maintenance of new products and technical staff are prohibitive.
(A) cost associated with
(B) costs associated with
(C) costs arising from
(D) cost of
(E) costs of
(A) cost associated with
(B) costs associated with
(C) costs arising from
(D) cost of
(E) costs of
Idiom : associate with. Between A and B ,why A is wrong? "cost associated with upgrading data-processing equipment ",with the development and maintenance of new products and technical staff " are plural. It agrees with verb "are"
Updated on: 30 Aug 2012, 01:21
Originally posted by MarkSullivan on 29 Aug 2012, 23:01.
Last edited by MarkSullivan on 30 Aug 2012, 01:21, edited 1 time in total.
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Piyatiwari alluded to this in his post, but just to clarify we choose "associated with" not because of any idiom issues. "Costs arising from" and "Costs of" are both idiomatically correct, and in fact "costs of" is even more concise than "costs associated with"!
What makes the difference here is parallelism. We're discussing the costs in two categories: "data-processing equipment" and "development and maintenance of ..." Since the sentence has "and with the development and maintenance ..." we should choose (B) because it is most parallel.
My take? Idioms are difficult (and rare), so think first about other issues.
Cheers,
Mark
14 Feb 2010, 19:18
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Hey All,
We often teach this question in class, so I thought I'd weigh in briefly.
There are two major splits here, the first is subject-verb agreement. You can always recognize this by singular/plural split in either a verb or a noun (singular/verb split in noun can also be a pronoun issue...by the way).
Your technique when faced with something like this should always be to IMMEDIATELY go looking for the verb. In this case, the verb is "are", all the way at the bottom of sentence. This means we need a plural subject: costs. (I'm not sure why some people think cost is plural and costs is singular--with rare exceptions, "s" makes plurality).
From there, we have a split between prepositions (with, of, from). All of these forms are inherently correct, in that costs can "arise from" something, or "be associated with" something, or just be "of" (costs of doing business, for example). The key is parallelism.
When you see the parallelism trigger "and", notice that the word that comes after it is WITH. This means we need to have a "with" in the first portion of the parallelism. You wouldn't want to say "costs associated with BLAH and arising from BLAH" or "costs associated with BLAH and of BLAH". Neither of those would be parallel.
These two splits get us to the correct answer: B.
Hope that helps!
We often teach this question in class, so I thought I'd weigh in briefly.
There are two major splits here, the first is subject-verb agreement. You can always recognize this by singular/plural split in either a verb or a noun (singular/verb split in noun can also be a pronoun issue...by the way).
Your technique when faced with something like this should always be to IMMEDIATELY go looking for the verb. In this case, the verb is "are", all the way at the bottom of sentence. This means we need a plural subject: costs. (I'm not sure why some people think cost is plural and costs is singular--with rare exceptions, "s" makes plurality).
From there, we have a split between prepositions (with, of, from). All of these forms are inherently correct, in that costs can "arise from" something, or "be associated with" something, or just be "of" (costs of doing business, for example). The key is parallelism.
When you see the parallelism trigger "and", notice that the word that comes after it is WITH. This means we need to have a "with" in the first portion of the parallelism. You wouldn't want to say "costs associated with BLAH and arising from BLAH" or "costs associated with BLAH and of BLAH". Neither of those would be parallel.
These two splits get us to the correct answer: B.
Hope that helps!
