Fifty-two percent of United States high school graduates

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Fifty-two percent of United States high school graduates go on to college, compared with Canada’s thirty-five percent and Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany’s fifteen percent.

(A) Fifty-two percent of United States high school graduates go on to college, compared with Canada’s thirty-five percent and Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany’s fifteen percent.
(B) Fifty-two percent of United States high school graduates go on to college; in Canada it is thirty-five percent and in Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany it is fifteen percent.
(C) In the United States, Fifty-two percent of high school graduates go on to college, compared with thirty-five percent in Canada and fifteen percent in Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany.
(D) The percentage of high school graduates in the United States who go on to college is fifty-two, compared with Canada’s thirty-five percent, Great Britain’s fifteen, Japan’s fifteen, and West Germany’s fifteen.
(E) The percentage of United States high school graduates going on to college is fifty-two that in Canada is thirty-five, and that in Great Britain, Japan, and West Germany is fifteen.

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by luvaduva » Sat May 24, 2008 10:07 am
I believe C.

B - incorrect- doesn't have an independant clause after the semicolon.
E - incorrect- sentence is incorrect "college is fifty-two that in Canada"
D - incorrect- Has a pronoun issue with who
A - incorrect- the comparison doesn't seem to be parallel like C

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by s_raizada » Sat May 24, 2008 11:53 am
The showdown is between A and C

A - each of the option is not structurally parallel

C - ....in the united stated ..... in the canda ... in west germany