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A tale of two cities

by paes » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:21 am
By the year 2000, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens' gripping book portraying the suffering of the proletariat under the brutal subjugation of the French aristocracy had around 200 million copies in print, making it more than that of almost any other English book ever written.

A) book portraying the suffering of the proletariat under the brutal subjugation of the French aristocracy had around 200 million copies in print, making it more than
B) book portraying the suffering of the proletariat under the brutal subjugation of the French aristocracy had around 200 million copies in print, which is more than
C) book portraying the suffering of the proletariat under the brutal subjugation of the French aristocracy, had around 200 million copies in print, more than
D) book portraying the suffering of the proletariat under the brutal subjugation of the French aristocracy, had around 200 million copies in print, making it more than
E) book portraying the suffering of the proletariat under the brutal subjugation of the French aristocracy had around 200 million copies in print and is more than

Please explain your answers.
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by missionGMAT007 » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:53 am
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by anin » Wed Jun 30, 2010 9:59 am
IMO C.
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by kvcpk » Wed Jun 30, 2010 10:55 am
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by paes » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:06 pm
OA is C.
But please explain your answers.

C is :

By the year 2000, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens' gripping
book portraying the suffering of the proletariat under the brutal subjugation of the French aristocracy, had around 200 million copies in print, more than that of almost any other English book ever written.

Here I am not clear how 'more than that of almost any other English book ever written' is related to the rest of the sentence.
ie. Is it a modifier or something else ??
Also in 'more than that' ----- that is referring to what ??
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by this_time_i_will » Wed Jun 30, 2010 6:26 pm
paes wrote:OA is C.
But please explain your answers.

C is :

By the year 2000, A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens' gripping
book portraying the suffering of the proletariat under the brutal subjugation of the French aristocracy, had around 200 million copies in print, more than that of almost any other English book ever written.

Here I am not clear how 'more than that of almost any other English book ever written' is related to the rest of the sentence.
ie. Is it a modifier or something else ??
Also in 'more than that' ----- that is referring to what ??
The skeletopn of the sentence is:

By the year 2000, A Tale of Two Cities,<modifier that modifies 'A Tale of Two Cities'> , had around 200 million copies in print, more than that of almost any other English book ever written.

more than that of almost any other English book ever written modifies the previous clause before comma.
that refers to copies and not print. This is because as we all know the pronoun can not refer to the noun that is object of preposition: in print
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by paes » Wed Jun 30, 2010 8:49 pm
Even I was thinking on the same line

But the confusion is :

how that(singular) can refer to copies(plural) ?

It should be

more than those of almost any other English book ever written.
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