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by beat_gmat_09 » Wed Mar 03, 2010 6:37 am
Unlike the people whom settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the hope of the prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush was to get rich quickly.

A) the people whom settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the hope of the prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush was
B) the people who settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the hope of the prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush was
C) that of the people who settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the prospectors
and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush hoped
D) that of the people whom settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the hope of the
prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush was
E) the people who settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush hoped

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by rockeyb » Wed Mar 03, 2010 8:11 am
Unlike the people whom settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the hope of the prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush was to get rich quickly.

[The sentence checks for comparison and pronoun use but mainly comparison and we need to compare apples to apples .]

A) the people whom settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the hope of the prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush was
[whom is incorrect should be who , eliminate]
B) the people who settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the hope of the prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush was
[the people are compared with hopes of prospectors , eliminate]
C) that of the people who settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the prospectors
and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush hoped
[that of the people finds no reference, or the better way to put it is the prospectors are compared with some thing of those who settled , eliminate ]
D) that of the people whom settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the hope of the
prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush was
[again use of whom , eliminate]
E) the people who settled the Western states after the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862, the prospectors and adventurers who came to California during the gold rush hoped
[correct , the people are compared with the prospectors .]
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