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pradeepkaushal9518: Legendary Member; Posts: 1309; Joined: Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:41 pmFollowed by: 5 members; Thanked: 33 times

by pradeepkaushal9518 » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:30 pm

Of the three major candidates for President in 2004, Ralph Nader, an independent who had represented the Green Party in the 2000 election, received the least media coverage and ultimately the fewest votes.

received the least media coverage and ultimately the fewest votes

received less media coverage and ultimately fewer votes

received less media coverage and ultimately less votes

received the least media coverage and ultimately less votes than did the other candidates

received the smallest amount of media coverage and ultimately the smallest number of votes

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by takegmat2010 » Tue Jul 13, 2010 10:42 pm

I would pick "A".

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by kvcpk » Wed Jul 14, 2010 12:29 am

IMO A

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by ashish2104 » Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:29 am

IMO A.

Media coverage is uncountable whereas votes is countable. hence appropriate usage of least and fewer.

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by blaster » Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:43 am

Of the three major candidates for President in 2004, Ralph Nader, an independent who had represented the Green Party in the 2000 election, received the least media coverage and ultimately the fewest votes.

of the three major - we need here the least
vote is countable - that's why we need few

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by gmatmachoman » Wed Jul 14, 2010 1:50 am

pradeepkaushal9518 wrote:Of the three major candidates for President in 2004, Ralph Nader, an independent who had represented the Green Party in the 2000 election, received the least media coverage and ultimately the fewest votes.

received the least media coverage and ultimately the fewest votes

received less media coverage and ultimately fewer votes

received less media coverage and ultimately less votes

received the least media coverage and ultimately less votes than did the other candidates

received the smallest amount of media coverage and ultimately the smallest number of votes

My 2 cents :

"the least media" and " the fewest " : parallelism is maintained

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by Haaress » Wed Jul 14, 2010 11:29 am

Please lets know what the OA is.

In E , is least preferred over smallest.

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by nh_cryptic » Tue May 22, 2012 11:29 pm

imo A...wht is OA...?

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