Obesity

uptowngirl92 · Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:26 pm

Obesity is more common among American teenagers now than ever before.

than
than it was
than has been
compared with
in terms of

Please support your answers with explanations.

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pandeyvineet24 · Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:15 pm

it should be A, i think

B uses "was", there is no need for change of tense. sentence structure implies that the instances of past are compared to present.

C - the sentence does not require the use of present perfect, because it would include the instances of obesity present now.

D and E are out because the non underline portion contains "more", so use of "than" is justified.

please post OA.