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by phelps » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:13 pm
514. 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

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by goelmohit2002 » Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:30 pm
IMO E is best because...

we need idiom as much...as
we need S-V value...is
we need parallelism....corporations pay....they pay....
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by phelps » Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:57 am
value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days ..are included

or is included ?????
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by goelmohit2002 » Fri Jul 17, 2009 4:55 am
phelps wrote:value of benefits, sick days, and paid vacation days ..are included

or is included ?????
value is singular so need is...
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by uptowngirl92 » Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:39 pm
ok i gave it a glance n' got this one wrong.
Pls somebody explain I chose ARE over IS b'coz three sublects are joined with an "and"..doesnt this requre a plural verb?
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by pandeyvineet24 » Mon Aug 24, 2009 6:30 pm
uptowngirl92 wrote:ok i gave it a glance n' got this one wrong.
Pls somebody explain I chose ARE over IS b'coz three sublects are joined with an "and"..doesnt this requre a plural verb?
actually the subject here is "Value" and therefore we need "is". Even i thought it was B, but after i reread the answer, i think E should be the correct choice
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by riteshbindal » Mon Aug 24, 2009 10:07 pm
phelps wrote:514. 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 - value is singular so we should use "is" here instead of "are"
(B) are included in earnings, as - value is singular so we should use "is" here instead of "are"
(C) is included in earnings, than they pay - Incorrect. Noun-verb matching is done properly. However, the use of "than" is incorrect here. We are using "twice as much to..." so "as" should be making the second phrase.
(D) is included in earnings, as is paid - Parallelism issue here.
(E) is included in earnings, as they pay - Correct.

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by rookiez » Tue Aug 25, 2009 5:44 am
What's wrong in D?
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by riteshbindal » Tue Aug 25, 2009 7:59 am
rookiez wrote:What's wrong in D?
Hi,

The problem with D is parallelism. In first part of parallelism, it is active voice "they pay" and in option d, it is passive, "is paid".
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