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Meaning's perspective question.

by [email protected] » Sun Dec 02, 2012 1:50 am
Chica, where industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city, was plagued by labor troubles like the Pullman Strikes of 1894.


[A] where industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city

which had industrial growth in the nineteenth century more rapid than that of other American cities

[C] which had growth industrially more rapid than any other American city in the nineteenth century

[D] whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city

[E] whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than that of any other American city


The OA is E.

After comparison, you get rid of A, C and D. You are left with the options B and E>
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by patanjali.purpose » Sun Dec 02, 2012 2:18 am
[email protected] wrote:Chica, where industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than any other American city, was plagued by labor troubles like the Pullman Strikes of 1894.


which had industrial growth in the nineteenth century more rapid than that of other American cities

[E] whose industrial growth in the nineteenth century was more rapid than that of any other American city


The OA is E.

After comparison, you get rid of A, C and D. You are left with the options B and E>


THAT OF can be compared with either another possessive construction OR another NOUN OF construction.

In B there is NONE - SO B is wrong

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