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by sanyalpritish » Tue Mar 30, 2010 7:53 am

While the base salary for the top five officers of the company did not change from 1990 to 1991, cuts were made nonsalary compensation, as in allowances for overseas assignments and club memberships.

(A) cuts were made nonsalary compensation, as in

(B) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as

(C) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as those in

(D) cuts in nonsalary compensation were made in areas like

(E) there were cuts made in nonsalary compensation, in areas like

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by rockeyb » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:41 am

sanyalpritish wrote:While the base salary for the top five officers of the company did not change from 1990 to 1991, cuts were made nonsalary compensation, as in allowances for overseas assignments and club memberships.

(A) cuts were made nonsalary compensation, as in
[Cuts were made ,nonsalary compensation , lacks a preposition IN so that the sentence could make sense eliminate]
(B) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as
[Cuts are compared with Allowence , eliminate]
(C) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as those in
[Cuts are compared with cuts in allowence , CORRECT]
(D) cuts in nonsalary compensation were made in areas like
[Cuts are compared with AREAS , eliminate]

(E) there were cuts made in nonsalary compensation, in areas like
[THERE pronoun needs to refer to a place , in this case lacks an antecedent , eliminate]

"Know thyself" and "Nothing in excess"

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by deepesh.gupta » Tue Mar 30, 2010 8:49 am

Can someone elaborate in detail why B is not correct, because in B it says that the cuts were made in nonsalary compensation such as alloance .... The alloance and night club membership are used as examples of nonsalary compensation

rockeyb wrote:
sanyalpritish wrote:While the base salary for the top five officers of the company did not change from 1990 to 1991, cuts were made nonsalary compensation, as in allowances for overseas assignments and club memberships.

(A) cuts were made nonsalary compensation, as in
[Cuts were made ,nonsalary compensation , lacks a preposition IN so that the sentence could make sense eliminate]
(B) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as
[Cuts are compared with Allowence , eliminate]
(C) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as those in
[Cuts are compared with cuts in allowence , CORRECT]
(D) cuts in nonsalary compensation were made in areas like
[Cuts are compared with AREAS , eliminate]

(E) there were cuts made in nonsalary compensation, in areas like
[THERE pronoun needs to refer to a place , in this case lacks an antecedent , eliminate]

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by rockeyb » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:02 am

The two things that are compared need to same .

We need to compare APPLES with APPLES and not ORANGES .

Ex : Jack physique is muscular like THAT of John's .

Here Jack's physique is compared with John's physique .

Wrong : Jack physique is muscular like John .

Here John is compared with jacks physique .

Similarly CUTS in nonsalary compensation - needs to be compared to cuts in some thing else .

Hope this helps .

"Know thyself" and "Nothing in excess"

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by mohit11 » Tue Mar 30, 2010 9:33 am

rockeyb wrote:The two things that are compared need to same .

We need to compare APPLES with APPLES and not ORANGES .

Ex : Jack physique is muscular like THAT of John's .

Here Jack's physique is compared with John's physique .

Wrong : Jack physique is muscular like John .

Here John is compared with jacks physique .

Similarly CUTS in nonsalary compensation - needs to be compared to cuts in some thing else .

Hope this helps .

Sorry, but you are incorrect, you have the concept right but the application of the concept here is wrong.

While the base salary for the top five officers of the company did not change from 1990 to 1991, cuts were made nonsalary compensation, as in allowances for overseas assignments and club memberships.

What are "allowances for overseas assignments" and "club memberships". These examples of nonsalary compensations.

A is obviously incorrect, D, E use Like hence incorrect.

C is incorrect because we not comparing cuts in 1 thing to cuts in another thing.

B is the correct answer.

(A) cuts were made nonsalary compensation, as in

(B) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as

(C) cuts were made in such nonsalary compensation as those in

(D) cuts in nonsalary compensation were made in areas like

(E) there were cuts made in nonsalary compensation, in areas like

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by reply2spg » Wed Mar 31, 2010 11:49 am

IMO B is the correct answer here.

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by Pdgmat2010 » Thu Apr 01, 2010 1:56 am

sanyalpritish
- please can you post the OA. am totally confused now..
between B & C.
i completely ignored the 'such' in option B and now am on shaky ground.