preference for vs preference in ?

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rashmi.kaushal: Senior | Next Rank: 100 Posts; Posts: 62; Joined: Tue May 06, 2008 1:57 am; Thanked: 4 times

by rashmi.kaushal » Tue Aug 10, 2010 11:57 pm

preference for vs preference in both usages are correct right ?

In this question why preference IN was chosen over preference FOR ?

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ansh.kumar: Master | Next Rank: 500 Posts; Posts: 108; Joined: Thu Feb 12, 2009 8:20 am; Thanked: 2 times

by ansh.kumar » Wed Aug 11, 2010 12:09 am

THE CORRECT IDIOM IS EITHER X OR Y.
BOTH X AND Y SHOULD BE PARALLEL.FOR "d" the choice is that it uses the idiom "either..., or..." correctly verus C. C does not have the word "using" repeat itself for parallelism.
TO BE CORRECT "C" WUD HAV " USING" after OR PART.
thats why the OA is "D"

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by rashmi.kaushal » Wed Aug 11, 2010 6:07 am

ansh.kumar wrote:THE CORRECT IDIOM IS EITHER X OR Y.
BOTH X AND Y SHOULD BE PARALLEL.FOR "d" the choice is that it uses the idiom "either..., or..." correctly verus C. C does not have the word "using" repeat itself for parallelism.
TO BE CORRECT "C" WUD HAV " USING" after OR PART.
thats why the OA is "D"

Thanks Ansh that was very helpful

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by ankurmit » Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:18 am

I agree that usage of Either/or is not correct in 1st sentence but I have a small doubt that why there should be "The list of animals that exhibit" in place of " The list of animals that exhibits".

I am confused

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by ankurmit » Thu Aug 12, 2010 8:22 am

Got my answer in previous posts..

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by Tani » Thu Aug 12, 2010 10:43 am

Think of "preference in" as being "preference within". You would say "the preference in the tenth grade is to take Algebra", but "tenth graders have a preference for algebra".

Tani Wolff

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by rashmi.kaushal » Thu Aug 12, 2010 9:42 pm

Tani Wolff - Kaplan wrote:Think of "preference in" as being "preference within". You would say "the preference in the tenth grade is to take Algebra", but "tenth graders have a preference for algebra".

Thanks Tani .. very nicely explained .. it will be in my mind always

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