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Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.
(A) are included in earnings, than
(B) are included in earnings, as
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay

OA E

i think D.[spoiler] What does 'they' refer to in E?[/spoiler]

sogmat wrote:Most Corporations pay at least twice as much to full-time employees, if the value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days are included in earnings, than to part-time employees, whose hourly wages are often higher than those of their full-time colleagues.
(A) are included in earnings, than
(B) are included in earnings, as
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay

OA E

i think D.[spoiler] What does 'they' refer to in E?[/spoiler]

IMO They refers to corporations.

E is better then D because of parallelism..

Corporations pay as much to X as they pay to Y.

Hi sogmat,

Can you please tell from where you picked this problem...since it seems that there is some problem with D too...

because if we choose D, then later their becomes ambiguous....

Earlier they = corporations
Later their = part time employees....

In general OG does not like this of ambiguity....

Please tell me if I am missing something here.

Thanks
Mohit