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Wood-burning fireplaces

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by selango » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:11 am
Wood-burning fireplaces may elicit warm memories of a simpler era, but chimney sweeps point out that wood-burning fireplaces take three times as long as cleaning gas fireplaces.

A. wood-burning fireplaces take three times as long as cleaning gas fireplaces

B. wood-burning fireplaces take three times as long to clean as gas fireplaces do

C. cleaning wood-burning fireplaces takes three times as long as gas fireplaces do

D. wood-burning fireplaces take three times as long as it does for gas fireplaces

E. to clean gas fireplaces takes three times as long as for gas fireplaces

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by shovan85 » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:35 am
IMO B

confused between B and C but C got faulty parallelism. Cleaning of A is compared with B not cleaning of B.
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by clock60 » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:38 am
vote for B
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by selango » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:44 am
clock60 wrote:vote for B
Hi Mike,

It ll be useful for others if u share ur explanations.
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by gmatrix » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:53 am
my pick C
for it can be written as.... cleaning wood-burning fireplaces takes three times as long as cleaning gas fireplaces do
parallelism.....
cleaning......takes
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by clock60 » Wed Oct 27, 2010 8:57 am
i`ll try but not sure neither in my answer nor in explanation..
seems like sentence tests||-ism
a) compare fireplaces with clearning
c) compare cleaning with gas fires
d) it- has no refferent
e)compare to clean with gas station
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by niksworth » Wed Oct 27, 2010 11:13 am
B is the only option that compares correctly.

A - Xs take 3 times as long as cleaning Ys - Incorrect.
C - cleaning Xs takes 3 times as long as Ys do. - Incorrect.
D - Xs take 3 times as long as it does for Ys. - Incorrect.
E - to clean Xs takes 3 times as long as for Ys. - Incorrect.
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by selango » Wed Oct 27, 2010 10:32 pm
OA B
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