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elimination details require

by alltimeacheiver » Fri Feb 11, 2011 3:05 am
According to analysts, an alliance between three major personal computer companies and most of the nation's largest local telephone companies would enable customers to receive Internet data over regular telephone lines with speeds much higher than is currently possible.
A. with speeds much higher than is
B. with speeds that are much higher than are
C. at much higher speeds as are
D. at much higher speeds than that
E. at speeds much higher than are


When drive-ins were at the height of their popularity in the late 1950's, some 4,000 existed in the United States, but today there are less than one-quarter that many.
A. there are less than one-quarter that many
B. there are fewer than one-quarter as many
C. there are fewer than one-quarter of that amount
D. the number is less than one-quarter the amount





E. it is less than one-quarter of that amount
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by aspirant2011 » Fri Feb 11, 2011 5:06 am
Is the answer for First D and second question A?

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by earnest10 » Sun Feb 13, 2011 7:34 pm
Q1 ... E is my answer; because of the idiom "at speeds" and speeds is plural

Q2: B is the correct answer here.... because we are dealing with countable noun....

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