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by jamesk486 » Wed Apr 11, 2007 7:34 am
The European Economic Community exported just under $400 billion in goods in 1988, sixty percent more than the US did and nearly twice as much as Japan's exports.



A. ..

B. the United States' and nearly double what the Japanese exports were

C. the US exported and nearly twice as much as the Japanese did

D. what the Us did and nearly twice as much as Japan's exports

E. what the US exported and nearly double the Japanese exports


The answer is (c), but I chose D...is "what the US did"..or "what the US exported" awkward??
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by jaspetrovic » Wed Apr 11, 2007 5:15 pm
I think that there's no problem with "what the US did", but if you look at the second part of the comparison - a.c. D - you will see that there's no parallelism btw "what the US did" and "Japan's exports".
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by mankey » Mon Jan 09, 2012 9:25 am
This one is not clear.

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by avik.ch » Tue Jan 10, 2012 3:43 am
mankey wrote:This one is not clear.

Thanks.
Notice the parallelism here :

The European Economic Community exported .....
the US exported ....

All except this breaks parallelism with the non underline part of the sentence.

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