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by hritik » Fri Sep 09, 2011 6:07 am
224. Contrary to popular opinion, the movement toward a service economy is "leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or "displacing the physical production of goods.
(A) leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or
(B) leading neither to lower standards of living nor a more unequal distribution of income, or
(C) not leading to either lower standards of living nor to more of an unequal distribution of income, and neither is it
(D) not leading to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, and it is not
(E) not leading to lower standards of living or to a more unequal distribution of income, nor is it
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by sl750 » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:22 am
IMO, B
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by GmatKiss » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:41 am
sl750 wrote:IMO, B
Could you please help us to breakdown to B

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by saketk » Fri Sep 09, 2011 7:44 am
hritik wrote:224. Contrary to popular opinion, the movement toward a service economy is "leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or "displacing the physical production of goods.
(A) leading neither to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, or
(B) leading neither to lower standards of living nor a more unequal distribution of income, or
(C) not leading to either lower standards of living nor to more of an unequal distribution of income, and neither is it
(D) not leading to lower standards of living, more of an unequal distribution of income, and it is not
(E) not leading to lower standards of living or to a more unequal distribution of income, nor is it
hi, the correct idiom is not ( X or Y ) nor Z -- Answer should be E
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by sl750 » Fri Sep 09, 2011 9:08 am
I guess I was hasty in concluding B. I see that after the first nor, we have a double negative ..' nor a more unequal distribution of income' would indicate that the distribution of income is equitable. Also, there is another nor after the comma that has to be negated to

But generally, neither x nor y is the correct idiom. You don't mix, neither with or or either with nor

One more error in B is the missing infinitive ... to a more unequal distribution

So E is correct
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