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by sogmat » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:06 am
By showing that South Africa does not have a free market and is in fact a kind of collectivist welfare state for Whites only, Sowell argues that American conservatives have no valid ideological grounds to be in sympathy with the Pretoria regime.
(A) to be in sympathy with
(B) to sympathize with
(C) for sympathizing with
(D) that they should sympathize with
(E) that they should have sympathy for

OA C
Why not b
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by rohan_vus » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:11 am
because correct idiom is "grounds for " and not "grounds to"
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by hemanth28 » Sun Jun 21, 2009 10:37 am
rohan_vus wrote:because correct idiom is "grounds for " and not "grounds to"
can someone confirm if "on grounds of " a correct idiom ? I tried looking up in dictionary but didn't help much. But I remember a statement vaguely " he was convicted on grounds of ...."
is this usage right?
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by Domnu » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:50 am
Another reason is the fact that the people are sympathizing over a period of time, which 'sympathizing' emphasizes.
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