atulmangal wrote:According to a 1996 survey by the National Association of College and University Business Officers, more than three times as many independent institutions of higher education charge tuition and fees of under $8,000 a year than those that charge over $16,000.
A. than those that charge
B. than are charging
C. than to charge
D. as charge
E. as those charging
In A, B and C,
than is incorrect. The correct idiom is
as many X as Y. Eliminate A, B and C.
In E,
more than three times as many charge ....as those charging is not a parallel comparison. Eliminate E.
The correct answer is
D.
Note the following:
As serves to compare ACTIONS. In E,
charging is not a verb but an ADJECTIVE.
As cannot serve to compare a verb (
charge) to an adjective (
charging). For E to compare actions, it would have to employ ellipsis to imply the following:
...more than three times as many...institutions...CHARGE under $8,000...as those charging over $16,000 CHARGE.
The implied meaning above creates an error of redundancy (
charging and
charge).
The ellipsis in D is better because it compares two ACTIONS without an error of redundancy:
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