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by ronniecoleman » Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:37 am
IMO B ?

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by amitabhprasad » Thu Dec 25, 2008 9:40 am
IMO "B" as well.
use of reflexive pronoun "themselves" seems to indicate action happened by truck i.e. truck by themselves came off the assembly line.
"D" and "E" wrong idiom
"A" the numbers of is wrong usage
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by piyush_nitt » Thu Dec 25, 2008 2:45 pm
[quote="amitabhprasad"]IMO "B" as well.
use of reflexive pronoun "themselves" seems to indicate action happened by truck i.e. truck by themselves came off the assembly line.
"D" and "E" wrong idiom
"A" the numbers of is wrong usage[/quote]


Agree. B looks best among lot.

But Is "twice that" a valid idiom?
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by Parastoo » Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:12 pm
I 'd rather B if that was eliminated byt that number of seem wrong although theselves look bad here it makes it hard to deside between B&D... so why B correct?
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by pandeyvineet24 » Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:13 pm
B for me too.
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by Parastoo » Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:13 pm
I 'd rather B if that was eliminated byt that number of seem wrong although theselves look bad here it makes it hard to deside between B&D... so why B correct?
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by piyush_nitt » Thu Dec 25, 2008 11:33 pm
[quote="Parastoo"]I 'd rather B if that was eliminated byt that number of seem wrong although theselves look bad here it makes it hard to deside between B&D... so why B correct?[/quote]

Incorrect Idiom. Should be as many as.
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by vittalgmat » Fri Dec 26, 2008 12:09 am
B for me too.

twice "that number" is needed here to imply a contrast.
and 'alone' is needed to complete the comparison.
the reflexive pronoun 'themselves' is inappropriate as it refers to trucks. It implies that trucks did something themselves.. which is wrong.
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