Confusion About pronoun

[gauravgundal]

Setting up a corporation requires more paperwork and legal provision than to establish either a proprietorship or a partnership.

a.than to establish either a proprietorship or a partnership.

b.than what it requires to establish either a proprietorship or a partnership.

c.than to either establish a proprietorship or a partnership.

d.than establishing either a proprietorship or a partnership.

e.than establishing proprietorships and partnerships.


The Answer for the about question is D. One of the experts says that the answer d is correct because 'either a proprietorship or a partnership' (singular) that agrees with a singular word in the above sentence 'a corporation' (singular)

I have no doubt about D,but one reason for correct answer was that 'either a proprietorship or a partnership' (singular) that agrees with a singular word in the above sentence 'a corporation' (singular)



Whereas Manhattan book has somthing different to say.



Sent : Our cat is cuter than the cats in the shelter.

The Manhattan experts says the above sentence is correct.

But my question is if the above sentence is correcn.As the cats --plural compare with our cat --singular.. then it violates the explanantion stated in above in sentence correction mentioned above.

Experts please cclerify my doubt.

[bhumika.k.shah]

gaurav,
you will find your answer here

https://www.beatthegmat.com/setting-up-t52997.html

even the same question was raised in this post. even i had my own doubts.

thanks to stuart's explanation. they r sorted

hope this helps you too

Setting up a corporation requires more paperwork and legal provision than to establish either a proprietorship or a partnership.

a.than to establish either a proprietorship or a partnership.

b.than what it requires to establish either a proprietorship or a partnership.

c.than to either establish a proprietorship or a partnership.

d.than establishing either a proprietorship or a partnership.

e.than establishing proprietorships and partnerships.


The Answer for the about question is D. One of the experts says that the answer d is correct because 'either a proprietorship or a partnership' (singular) that agrees with a singular word in the above sentence 'a corporation' (singular)


But in Manhattan book,

Sent : Our cat is cuter than the cats in the shelter.

The Manhattan experts says the above sentence is correct.

But my question is how the above sentence is correct.As the cats --plural compare with our cat --singular..

Experts please cclerify my doubt.

[gauravgundal]

gaurav,
you will find your answer here

https://www.beatthegmat.com/setting-up-t52997.html

even the same question was raised in this post. even i had my own doubts.

thanks to stuart's explanation. they r sorted Smile

hope this helps you too Smile

I have read that post that's why I am confused which one to follow.

[rockeyb]

Setting up a corporation requires more paperwork and legal provision than to establish either a proprietorship or a partnership.

a.than to establish either a proprietorship or a partnership.

b.than what it requires to establish either a proprietorship or a partnership.

c.than to either establish a proprietorship or a partnership.

d.than establishing either a proprietorship or a partnership.

e.than establishing proprietorships and partnerships.


The Answer for the about question is D. One of the experts says that the answer d is correct because 'either a proprietorship or a partnership' (singular) that agrees with a singular word in the above sentence 'a corporation' (singular)


But in Manhattan book,

Sent : Our cat is cuter than the cats in the shelter.

The Manhattan experts says the above sentence is correct.

But my question is how the above sentence is correct.As the cats --plural compare with our cat --singular..

Experts please cclerify my doubt.

Referring to the bold sentence above , it dose not matter if the things being compared are differing in numbers what is more important is WHAT is being compared .

Here 1 cat is compared to all the cats in shelter . The thing to note is cat is compared with cats that is what counts .


As far as the question is concerned "One of the experts says that the answer d is correct because 'either a proprietorship or a partnership' (singular) that agrees with a singular word in the above sentence 'a corporation' (singular)
"
This is just a matter of chance that Corporation , proprietorship, and partnership all are singular. Will it make any difference if you make it Corporations ? will the answer to the question change?

No since this is a question of parallelism Setting up should be parallel to establishing either X or Y (idiom).

Please correct me if I am wrong .

[bhumika.k.shah]

As far as the question is concerned "One of the experts says that the answer d is correct because 'either a proprietorship or a partnership' (singular) that agrees with a singular word in the above sentence 'a corporation' (singular)
"
This is just a matter of chance that Corporation , proprietorship, and partnership all are singular. Will it make any difference if you make it Corporations ? will the answer to the question change?

No since this is a question of parallelism Setting up should be parallel to establishing either X or Y (idiom).

Please correct me if I am wrong .

u r correct.the highlighted part is the hidden highlight of the sentence.way to go rockeyb

[rockeyb]

@bhumika.k.shah

You are welcome ,seems like I am getting my concentration back

[gauravgundal]

proprietorship or a partnership' (singular) that agrees with a singular word in the above sentence 'a corporation' (singular)
"
This is just a matter of chance that Corporation , proprietorship, and partnership all are singular. Will it make any difference if you make it Corporations ? will the answer to the question change?

No since this is a question of parallelism Setting up should be parallel to establishing either X or Y (idiom).

Please correct me if I am wrong .

I agree with you,but I think you must read the post from stuart .I think bhumika has mentioned about it.

My doubt was different. No problem .I have send a PM to experts .Let see what they have to say.

[viidyasagar]

Gaurav,

If you have a doubt kindly post it in the same thread!!! Why create multiple threads?

Let me try and answer your Q.......Let's break it down!!!

Apples and apples need to be compared, agreed???

What is the apple in the Q

Setting up a corporation requires more paperwork and legal provision than establishing either a proprietorship or a partnership

Is it corporation, is it corporations???? IMHO none of the two...... Apples here is - "Effort required" to accomplish a task - that of - Setting up a corporation

If you agree with the above, then you'll realize that effort gets multiplied when many corporations have to be set up!!!!

Similarly, the other side of the apple has to be - Effort required to setting up/ establishing a similar task viz., a proprietorship OR a partnership (singular). Obviously you'll have more paperwork and bla when more than 1 proprietorship needs to be established!!!

Even when we say "Setting up corporations requires more paperwork and legal provision than establishing proprietorships or partnerships" we still compare paperwork and legal provision for one with another.......but we can definitely not say "setting up corporations (plural) requires more effort than establishing a proprietorship (singular) ....because then apples would be compared to oranges, even melons!!!!

Remember "effort required" to accomplish comparable tasks are compared !!!

I can surely say "Setting up a corporation requires more hard-work than constructing 3 buildings!!!

Sure, singular is compared to plural but that's not the real comparison.....its the amount of hard-work that is compared, assuming they are comparable

Now at your counter query

Our cat is cuter than the cats in the shelter

Simple answer.....cuteness is not countable.....we dont mean to say that our cat is cuter than the cuteness of all the cats put together.....there is no ambiguity hence it is the same as saying "our cat is cuter than any other cat in the shelter"

However in the "setting up " question the "and" in option E also helps us zero in on D. I am sure you see that!!!

[viidyasagar]

Succinctly put,

"more" is the quantifier in the statement

Setting up a corporation requires more paperwork and legal provision than establishing either a proprietorship or a partnership

I will view this statement as follows: The author of this sentence has good information about setting up corporations, proprietorships and partnerships.

He/ she knows that setting up a corporation needs 100 different papers to be signed by a legal entity while establishing a proprietorship or a partnership needs only 95 different papers to be signed respectively..hence he/ she states

Setting up a corporation requires more paperwork and legal provision than establishing either a proprietorship or a partnership (100>95)

Obviously setting up 1 corporation cannot be compared to establishing many proprietorships, can it???

I think this explanation should do it?????

[lunarpower]

Sent : Our cat is cuter than the cats in the shelter.

The Manhattan experts says the above sentence is correct.

the above sentence is at least reasonable.
there are better ways to write it -- e.g., ...than any of the cats in the shelter -- but at least it is not ridiculous in context; it's somewhat plausible to compare the cuteness of my cat to the (collective) cuteness of the cats in the shelter.

choice (e) in the cited problem, though, doesn't make sense at all; you cannot legitimately compare the setting up of a corporation with the setting up of multiple proprietorships AND multiple partnerships (the literal meaning of that answer choice).