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by jainnikhil02 » Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:02 am
In a press conference given last week, the Mills Company spokesman explained that
although other machines are cheaper, the competitor's product costs twice as much as
maintaining the new Mills' machine.

A. the competitor's product costs twice as much as maintaining the new Mills'
machine
B. the competitor's product costs twice as much to maintain as the new Mills'
machine
C. maintaining the competitor's product costs twice as much as the new Mills'
machine does
D. maintaining the competitor's product costs twice as much as it does for
maintaining the new Mills' machine
E. to maintain the competitor's product costs twice as much as for the new Mills'
machine
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by aspirant2011 » Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:49 am
jainnikhil02 wrote:In a press conference given last week, the Mills Company spokesman explained that
although other machines are cheaper, the competitor's product costs twice as much as
maintaining the new Mills' machine.

A. the competitor's product costs twice as much as maintaining the new Mills'
machine
B. the competitor's product costs twice as much to maintain as the new Mills'
machine
C. maintaining the competitor's product costs twice as much as the new Mills'
machine does
D. maintaining the competitor's product costs twice as much as it does for
maintaining the new Mills' machine
E. to maintain the competitor's product costs twice as much as for the new Mills'
machine
I would go with B.....wats the OA?????
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by jainnikhil02 » Fri Jul 08, 2011 10:57 am
OA is B

can you please xplain
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by aspirant2011 » Sat Jul 09, 2011 8:40 am
In a press conference given last week, the Mills Company spokesman explained that although other machines are cheaper, the competitor's product costs twice as much as maintaining the new Mills' machine.

A. the competitor's product costs twice as much as maintaining the new Mills' machine

B. the competitor's product costs twice as much to maintain as the new Mills' machine [does]-----proper parallelism is being maintained between the former and the latter part of the sentence

C. maintaining the competitor's product costs twice as much as the new Mills' machine does----- improper parallelism

D. maintaining the competitor's product costs twice as much as it does for maintaining the new Mills' machine -----causes redundancy

E. to maintain the competitor's product costs twice as much as for the new Mills' machine----- improper parallelism
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