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by f2001290 » Wed May 23, 2007 7:51 am
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.

Why C and not B
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by Cybermusings » Wed May 23, 2007 9:56 am
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

A violates parallelism - compares 52% of high school graduates in US with Great Britain...
B - Wrong construction...in Canada it is 35% and in Great Britain

C has the best construction....OA please
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by aim-wsc » Sat Jun 02, 2007 12:33 am
do have a look at the Prachi's explanation
https://www.beatthegmat.com/viewtopic.php?t=638

and oh yeah I am updating the thread :
check it out. 8)
https://www.beatthegmat.com/viewtopic.php?t=1461
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by tallynik » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:43 pm
I like C since it is parallel. But why can it not be "E".
Can someone explain why is "E" wrong?
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Thu Nov 06, 2008 10:59 pm
A -comaprison prob
B-'it' hs no ref.
c- No prob
D -wordy
E - ' going on to ' is wrong const.
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by tallynik » Thu Nov 06, 2008 11:02 pm
[quoteE - ' going on to ' is wrong const.[/quote]

Ooops i missed that "going on to".
I am still curious if E were to be "go on to" would it have been correct?
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by cheeseburst » Fri Nov 07, 2008 12:33 am
Hey tallynik!
(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 - is wrong because "that" in Canada,Great Britain and West Germany is nonsensically referring US high school graduates.
Pls let me know if this helps.Thanx.
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by tallynik » Fri Nov 07, 2008 7:55 am
cheeseburst wrote:Hey tallynik!
(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 - is wrong because "that" in Canada,Great Britain and West Germany is nonsensically referring US high school graduates.
Pls let me know if this helps.Thanx.

The subject of sentence E is "The percentages" followed by the preposition "of" and .........

I dont see how "That" refers to "high school graduates" it should refer to "percentage".
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by magnus opus » Fri Oct 29, 2010 3:07 am
this question has real problems.

no.1 - u.S needs an apostrophe... the 50 % only denotes a share of the sutdent, to denote posession properly we need to write. 50% of u.s' students...
other than that there are no other errors in A,
No, G.B, japan, and west germany's is correct as the rule says that we can only place one apostrophe at the end of the last word, if the subject is collective, in this case they share a common percentage.

eg. you say john and macy's
not john's and macy's unless the ofcourse the emphasis on the separate nature of the clause.
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