Sentence Correction

Congestion pricing, the practice of charging a fee for driving into the busiest areas of a city at the busiest times; it has more support from economists than do politicians.


A] at the busiest times; it has more support from economists than do politicians.

B] at the busiest times, has more support among economists than among politicians.

C] at the busiest times; it has more support among economists than among politicians.

D] at the busiest times, has more support from economists than do politicians.

E] at the busiest times, it has more support from economists than from among politicians.




The OA is B.

A difficult question as I think overall the idiom usage was wrong... lets discuss..


[spoiler]Option A: A semi-colon not required as the first clause 'Congestion pricing, the practice of charging a fee for driving into the busiest areas of a city at the busiest times' cannot stand alone as the overall clause does not have a verb of its own. Also 'the practice.... at busiest times' is a phrase modifying 'Congestion Pricing'. So option A is incorrect. semi-colon not required.


Option C: same as the option A.

Option D: Not parallel at all. Rectifies the semi-colon mistake, but has a parallelism error.
the first part Congestion pricing is the subject and in the second part the subject is politicians hence not parallel.

Option E: A commma is the correct thing and this option rectifies the semi-colon error but the pronoun 'it' is not required and is redundant. Moreover the use of 'from among' creates parallelism error. Not required. Hence option E is not correct.


Out of the five options, option B is the best[/spoiler], but my question is that don't you feel that from the idioms perspective in sentence correction, use of 'among' is incorrect and 'from' should have been used. This sentence genuinely seems to be incorrect to me.

Please look into it...

Thank you.