I have two comparison questions here:
1) A result of the recent election is realizing that in this increasingly urban areas, there is now more worry about crime than health care.
A: realizing that in this increasingly urban areas, there is now more worry about crime
B: the realization that in this increasingly urban areas, they now worry more about crime
C: the realization that in this increasingly urban areas, voters now worry more about crime
D: a realizing that in this increasingly urban areas, there is now more concern about crime
E: the realization that in this increasingly urban areas, concerns about crime are greater
[spoiler]OA: C [/spoiler]
2) Though laypeople often refer to the panda as a bear, due to its physical resemblance to one, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than any member of the bear family.
A. due to its physical resemblance to one, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than
B. due to the fact that it physically resembles one, DNA testing showed that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than is
C. because of its physical resemblance to one, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than
D. because of its resemblance to one physically, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than is
E. because of its physical resemblance to one, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than to
[spoiler]OA: E[/spoiler]
Though I reached the correct answers by POE for both questions, I am not very sure of the ways the comparisons have been made in the two questions. In the first question, the two entities being compared are "Crime" and "health care" and thus parallelism should be enforced. So ideally, shouldn't the preposition "about" have preceded the word "health care"?
In the second question, the entities being compared are "common raccoon" and "any member of the bear family". Here, in the correct answer both items being compared have the preposition "to" preceding them.
Please explain how and why is the pattern of comparison different (in terms of usage of the preposition before words being compared) in the two questions?
1) A result of the recent election is realizing that in this increasingly urban areas, there is now more worry about crime than health care.
A: realizing that in this increasingly urban areas, there is now more worry about crime
B: the realization that in this increasingly urban areas, they now worry more about crime
C: the realization that in this increasingly urban areas, voters now worry more about crime
D: a realizing that in this increasingly urban areas, there is now more concern about crime
E: the realization that in this increasingly urban areas, concerns about crime are greater
[spoiler]OA: C [/spoiler]
2) Though laypeople often refer to the panda as a bear, due to its physical resemblance to one, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than any member of the bear family.
A. due to its physical resemblance to one, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than
B. due to the fact that it physically resembles one, DNA testing showed that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than is
C. because of its physical resemblance to one, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than
D. because of its resemblance to one physically, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than is
E. because of its physical resemblance to one, DNA testing has shown that it is more closely related to the common raccoon than to
[spoiler]OA: E[/spoiler]
Though I reached the correct answers by POE for both questions, I am not very sure of the ways the comparisons have been made in the two questions. In the first question, the two entities being compared are "Crime" and "health care" and thus parallelism should be enforced. So ideally, shouldn't the preposition "about" have preceded the word "health care"?
In the second question, the entities being compared are "common raccoon" and "any member of the bear family". Here, in the correct answer both items being compared have the preposition "to" preceding them.
Please explain how and why is the pattern of comparison different (in terms of usage of the preposition before words being compared) in the two questions?
