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by wilderness » Sun Jul 20, 2008 8:05 am
Hi,

The OA is 5, but I think its missing a "by". Should this not be "Like those charged by other health care workers, dentists' interests rates..."

Ideas ?

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by java_ka_jalwa » Sun Sep 07, 2008 11:58 am
I thought so too.
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by stubbornp » Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:09 pm
By using BY,it alters the meaning.....

Answer choice is correct...Proper Parallelism
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by java_ka_jalwa » Mon Sep 08, 2008 1:13 pm
Hi Thanks for the reply, using by does violate parallelism , but can you please explain the correctness of this choice purely in terms of the grammar used , I am still not understanding it.

Like those charged other heath care workers,

How to make sense of this dependant clause without using a preposition ?
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by stubbornp » Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:17 pm
java_ka_jalwa wrote:Hi Thanks for the reply, using by does violate parallelism , but can you please explain the correctness of this choice purely in terms of the grammar used , I am still not understanding it.

Like those charged other heath care workers,

How to make sense of this dependant clause without using a preposition ?

Here those means the rates for other health workers.....

Hope it clears now...
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by java_ka_jalwa » Mon Sep 08, 2008 10:58 pm
Yes those replaces rates.

so if I substitute those by rates, the sentence becomes

"Like the rates charged healthcare workers, "


That still seems incorrect without a preposition.

Like the taxes charged in Texas, seems correct to me.

Like the taxes charged Texas,
doesnt sound correct to me. seems like taxes are doing the actions of charging Texas.

Can the preposition be implied ?
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by ikruz » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:26 am
Can someone throw light on how preposition is implied here?..

I also rejected option e) because of this reason.
However the OA is e).

Please clarify how e is correct?.

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by maihuna » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:44 am
ikruz wrote:Can someone throw light on how preposition is implied here?..

I also rejected option e) because of this reason.
However the OA is e).

Please clarify how e is correct?.

Thanks.
What is the source of the Q, everything from Q to options to explanations look vague to me, could be 800 score or some thing similar. stupid.
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by ikruz » Fri Oct 09, 2009 10:47 am
maihuna wrote:
What is the source of the Q, everything from Q to options to explanations look vague to me, could be 800 score or some thing similar. stupid.

The question is from a Kaplan test.(Kaplan CD)
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by maihuna » Fri Oct 09, 2009 12:09 pm
ikruz wrote:
maihuna wrote:
What is the source of the Q, everything from Q to options to explanations look vague to me, could be 800 score or some thing similar. stupid.

The question is from a Kaplan test.(Kaplan CD)
then ask stuart
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Re: Comparison

by Stuart@KaplanGMAT » Fri Oct 09, 2009 8:51 pm
wilderness wrote:Hi,

The OA is 5, but I think its missing a "by". Should this not be "Like those charged by other health care workers, dentists' interests rates..."

Ideas ?

BR,
The rates are charged to health care workers, not by health care workers; we would use "by" if the sentence said "like those charged by other health care companies".

Idiomatically, we don't need a preposition in this sentence. We would say:

"The company charges me $40 a year", not "the company charges to me $50 a year".
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