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A study on couples' retirement transitions

by bhumika.k.shah » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:13 pm
A study on couples' retirement transitions found that women who took new jobs after retiring from their primary careers reported high marital satisfaction, more so than those who retired completely.

A. more so than those who retired
B. which was more than if they had retired
C. more than when retiring
D. more than if they were to retire
E. which was more so than those retiring
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by money9111 » Wed Feb 03, 2010 10:31 pm
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by sumanr84 » Wed Feb 03, 2010 11:01 pm
IMO : A

B and D are changing the meaning of the sentence by making 2nd part after comma a supposition case.
I like A coz 'women who took' and ' those who retired' are ||el.

little bit suspicious on 'more so than' idiom though..!!!
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by bhumika.k.shah » Thu Feb 04, 2010 6:39 am
'more so than' is a correct idiom.

Could you point out whats wrong with E

OA A

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quote="sumanr84"]IMO : A

B and D are changing the meaning of the sentence by making 2nd part after comma a supposition case.
I like A coz 'women who took' and ' those who retired' are ||el.

little bit suspicious on 'more so than' idiom though..!!![/quote]
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by akahuja143 » Thu Feb 04, 2010 8:01 am
I agree with Suman.. my Answer would be A

As far E seems to be little awakward and also retiring does not make sense as
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by Ludacrispat26 » Thu Feb 04, 2010 7:22 pm
A study on couples' retirement transitions found that women who took new jobs after retiring from their primary careers reported high marital satisfaction, more so than those who retired completely.

A. more so than those who retired
B. which was more than if they had retired
C. more than when retiring
D. more than if they were to retire
E. which was more so than those retiring
The problem here with E is that "which" must refer to the word immediately before the comma, in this instance being "satisfaction." So it is silly to suggest that the satisfaction was "more so than those retiring." We are thus comparing the satisfaction to the women themselves, which isn't what we want. Instead, A let's us assume that we are referring to the act of "reporting high marital satisfaction," which women who took new jobs did "more so than those who retired."
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