Sentence Correction

There is a widespread belief in the United States and Western Europe that young people have a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents and that the source of the change lies in the collapse of the "work ethic".
1) ".."
2) less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents
3) a smaller commitment to work and a career than that of their parents and grandparents
4) less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents had
5) a lessening of the commitment to work and a career that their parent and grandparents had

OA - 4

beater wrote:There is a widespread belief in the United States and Western Europe that young people have a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents and that the source of the change lies in the collapse of the "work ethic".
1) ".."
2) less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents
3) a smaller commitment to work and a career than that of their parents and grandparents
4) less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents had
5) a lessening of the commitment to work and a career that their parent and grandparents had

IMO B

less X than Y correct idiom E

A , C , E out


Between B and D ,

less of both doesnot sound right to me.

ll go with B

OA plz?

IMO D.

Young people had less X than their parents had.

(Young people had less X) // (their parents had)

Note: "//" = parallelism

-BM-

read this.
a) I have less money than John?
b) I have less money than John has ( had).

in comparision, play close attention to what is being compared.
he has less commitment to work than Alice has
they have less commitment to work than their parents HAD

Also comparisions tend to be easier when you isolate the entire sentence and play close attention to what is being compared.

In option 3, is THAT referring to smaller commitment to work and a career

I am on C.

It's a comparison question where,

"a smaller commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents"

commitment to work and career is compared to parents and grand parents.

Option C corrects this by introducing

"a smaller commitment to work and a career than that of their parents and grandparents "

that which corrects the error.

OA?

matterover,

Does your explanation mean that the following is wrong?

I have less money than that of John

matterover wrote:read this.
a) I have less money than John?
b) I have less money than John has ( had).

in comparision, play close attention to what is being compared.
he has less commitment to work than Alice has
they have less commitment to work than their parents HAD

Also comparisions tend to be easier when you isolate the entire sentence and play close attention to what is being compared.

bluementor wrote:IMO D.

Young people had less X than their parents had.

(Young people had less X) // (their parents had)

Note: "//" = parallelism

-BM-

IMO

less X than Y is an idiom

So in this case

less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents had

Bold part should be || with underlined part in option 4. which is not the case.

bold part is noun phrase and underlined part is clause

Please share your thoughts!

piyush_nitt wrote: IMO

less X than Y is an idiom

So in this case

less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents had

Bold part should be || with underlined part in option 4. which is not the case.

bold part is noun phrase and underlined part is clause

Please share your thoughts!

piyushnitt,
in the sentence the bolded part is not parallel to the underlined part.

the sentence says : less of a commitment to work and a career than their parents and grandparents had (commitment to work and a career)

the part after "had" is implied and is parallel to the bolded part. we are comparing the commitment of the young people to the commitment of the grandparents