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comma or hyphen?

by priyankamishra11 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 5:46 am
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies�less than those killed by bee stings.

A. movies�less than those
B. movies�fewer than have been
C. movies, which is less than those
D. movies, a number lower than the people
E. movies, fewer than the ones

Please explain
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by gmat009 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:32 am
IS it B.
What's OA?
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by amitabhprasad » Wed Oct 01, 2008 8:52 am
Little confused but will go with "A".
Because some where I read this
"we generally use non-count modifiers (less, amount, much, etc.) when we are referring to percentages and fractions, even when those numbers refer to count nouns. The concept behind this is that we are focusing on the number itself, not on the things the number represents".

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by schumi_gmat » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:25 am
The Ansewr is E

People are countable and hence we should use fewer.
that elims A C and D

In B, Have is been is wrong

hence E
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by priyankamishra11 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 10:35 am
schumi_gmat wrote:The Ansewr is E

People are countable and hence we should use fewer.
that elims A C and D

In B, Have is been is wrong

hence E
Can you explain why we can't use have been in B.?
It looked right and parallel to rest of the statement. Why you think it is wrong?
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by niraj_a » Wed Oct 01, 2008 2:13 pm
B is wrong because

1) i dont think using present perfect twice in one sentence is correct
2) also, because the present perfect is used twice, the sentence does sound odd
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by bleacherseat » Wed Oct 01, 2008 6:05 pm
E is right.

B even though seems parallel is missing a subject.

fewer than .....<subject here>..... have been


subject could be : those who

people who
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Wed Oct 01, 2008 7:40 pm
I will go with B because... Ones is having no refrent and i think it is being used as Prpnoun here but not sure...
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by kiran.raze » Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:17 am
IMO E, whats the OA ?

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by stop@800 » Thu Oct 02, 2008 12:11 pm
The question was comma or hyphen.

I think first we need to use ,.
so AB are out

why comma:
comma is used when we are talking in continuation to what has already been said.

Hyphen is sometimes used to give examples.

I like fruits - Apples, Oranges and .....

Hyphen is also used for non exxential modifier.

IMO following sentence is ok
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark - the man-eater of the movies.


Please correct me if my understanding is wrong.



C wrong because which is incorrectly used.
D wrong because number is compared with people

so Ans is E
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by rahul.s » Thu Jan 21, 2010 6:39 am
The answer's B. For a detailed explanation, follow the link :)

https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/can ... t4278.html
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