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by gmat_perfect » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:40 pm
Retailers reported moderate gains in their November sales, as much because of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that shoppers were getting a head start on buying their holiday gifts.

A. of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that
B. of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because
C. of their sales a year earlier being as bad as because
D. their sales a year earlier had been so bad as because
E. their sales of a year earlier were as bad as that

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by SeemaSkl » Thu Aug 19, 2010 1:44 pm
Good question. IMO D
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by madhukumar_v » Thu Aug 19, 2010 7:04 pm
Having and Being are mostly wrong; so A,B,C are wrong. Also Because of +Noun + Ing is mostly wrong.
Between D and E; D properly uses Past perfect tense, In E, as bad as is used to compare two things; Here we are not comparing any thing, so adjective(bad) as would work fine to mention the reason behind a cause.
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by pesfunk » Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:17 pm
D is the right option.

incidentally, you can knock out all of (a), (b), and (c) for the same reason: the disallowed construction "because of NOUN VERBing".

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gmat_perfect wrote:Retailers reported moderate gains in their November sales, as much because of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that shoppers were getting a head start on buying their holiday gifts.

A. of their sales of a year earlier being so bad as that
B. of their sales a year earlier having been as bad as because
C. of their sales a year earlier being as bad as because
D. their sales a year earlier had been so bad as because
E. their sales of a year earlier were as bad as that

[spoiler]OA: Later[/spoiler]
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by Rezinka » Wed Nov 10, 2010 11:30 pm
As because..... is coorect?
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