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by suchoudh » Sun Mar 28, 2010 2:24 pm
In 1998, there were 3.2 million public school students who were not proficient in English in the USA, almost twice as many as 1990.

(A) almost twice as many as
(B) almost twice as many as in
(C) almost twice as many as there were in
(D) nearly twice as many as in
(E) about twice as many as there were in

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by grockit_andrea » Sun Mar 28, 2010 2:29 pm
I believe that the answer here would be D, because "as there were in" is necessary to establish that the comparison is between the numbers of students who weren't proficient in 1998 and 1990. If the sentence just said "as in 1990," it could be read as comparing "in English" to "in 1990," which doesn't make sense.
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by suchoudh » Sun Mar 28, 2010 2:38 pm
I am sorry you mean C or E? "as there were in" is not in the answer choice D.
grockit_andrea wrote:I believe that the answer here would be D, because "as there were in" is necessary to establish that the comparison is between the numbers of students who weren't proficient in 1998 and 1990. If the sentence just said "as in 1990," it could be read as comparing "in English" to "in 1990," which doesn't make sense.
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by grockit_andrea » Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:44 pm
Oops, yes, I meant C. Sorry about that!
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by suchoudh » Sun Mar 28, 2010 4:54 pm
I have two questions here:

1. Can we eliminate "there were" using ellipsis; or it changes the meaning and breaks the parallelism?

2. How to choose between C and E i.e. almost vs about.

Yes, the answer is indeed C.
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by gmat_perfect » Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:10 am
As many as:

"As many as +clause" should be correct.
A, B, and D are out.

Now, we are between C and E:

Almost =very nearly but not exactly or entirely <we're almost there>.
About = almost =very close to.

So, no significant difference between about and almost is found.

Why should we choose C over E? Would any expert explain?

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by suchoudh » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:54 pm
gmat_perfect wrote: Why should we choose C over E? Would any expert explain?
"About" is almost always used as a preposition, not an adjective, so the adjective "almost" is the preferable word here.
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