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by RaviKiran » Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:24 am
140.As the housing affordability gap widens, middle-income families are especially hard-hit, and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and rising rental rates force them to use far more than the standard 25 percent of their incomes for housing, leaving them with no equity or tax write-offs to offset the expenditures.

(A) and these families can no longer qualify to buy homes, and
(B) since these families can no longer afford to buy homes, furthermore
(C) for these families can no longer afford to buy homes, yet
(D) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes; however
(E) and these families can no longer afford to buy homes, for

the answer was mentioned as C. I picked B...... However, I am unable to get the reason why not B and why C.
Can anyone clarify about these structural signposts (however, yet, furthermore) when to use and when not to use...
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by uwhusky » Tue Sep 21, 2010 6:54 am
One reason to choose C over B is that "yet" is a conjunction, "furthermore" is only an adverb.
Yep.
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by gmatrix » Tue Sep 21, 2010 7:19 am
However, I am unable to get the reason why not B and why C.
Can anyone clarify about these structural signposts (however, yet, furthermore) when to use and when not to use...
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Yet & However-are counter premise indicators....they signal a contrast/shift from an earlier stated idea/opinion/fact etc
Furthermore-just adds too an idea....supports it...usually its non-essential piece of an argument.

as for choice C......yet correctly signals the shift/contrast.....they are hard hit...can no longer qualify to buy homes...yet are forced to spend more than the standard 25 percent of their incomes for housing

maybe an expert can weigh in here with his/her thoughts.......
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by kvcpk » Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:01 am
I agree with both the posts above.

I have a query here:

"rising rental rates force them to use far more than the standard 25 percent of their incomes for housing"

Is this an Independent clause?
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by niksworth » Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:13 am
kvcpk wrote:I agree with both the posts above.

I have a query here:

"rising rental rates force them to use far more than the standard 25 percent of their incomes for housing"

Is this an Independent clause?
I think yes.

Subject - rising rental rates
Verb - force
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by kvcpk » Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:23 am
niksworth wrote: I think yes.

Subject - rising rental rates
Verb - force
Thanks Niksworth.

I think in that case answer to this question can be derived another way too. 2 independent clauses can only be combined using FANBOYS (For,And,Not,But,Or,Yet,So)
So, we can eliminate all but A and C.

Since the context is speaking about 2 related events and not 2 different events, AND cannot be used.

pick C.
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by niksworth » Tue Sep 21, 2010 9:13 am
That was a good spot.
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by ankurmit » Thu Sep 23, 2010 4:27 am
I agree that 2 independent clauses can only be combined using FANBOYS (For,And,Not,But,Or,Yet,So)

But I am not convinced with the use of " YET"

Here contrast is not required


they are hard hit...can no longer qualify to buy homes....... .........are forced to spend more than the standard 25 percent of their incomes for housing, leaving them with no equity or tax write-offs to offset the expenditures.

We are just adding something that is supporting that idea..Yet can be used to join two independent clauses that contrast each other.

Here the two clauses are supporting each other.

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