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by sk8ternite » Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:26 pm
One of the duties of the Securities and Exchange Commission is to guarantee that individual or small investors have the same information about the financial health of a company as do the large, institutional investors.

a. as do the large, institutional investors
b. as does the large, institutional investors
c. like the large, institutional investors
d. in addition to the large, institutional investors
e. as the large, institutional investors
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by Domnu » Sat Aug 22, 2009 1:29 pm
I think the answer should be E. Here's why:

[spoiler]A - awkward... as do the isn't correct
B - "does" is incorrect
C - "same... like" is unidiomatic
D - "same... in addition" is unidiomatic
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by nsrikanthshetty » Sat Aug 22, 2009 10:34 pm
None of the choices are sounding good..except the real usage.. as do the.. E would have been right if it was.. as the large, institutional investors do.

otherwise imo E is comparing financial health to large companies.. not the companies' fin health.
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by bignasty666 » Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:35 am
its A?
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by arorag » Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:29 am
It should be E
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by niraj_a » Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:59 am
A sounds the best to me vs. E.

this one is tricky man!

EDIT - missed the "the" in A. this is incorrect for parallelism purposes. E wins.
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by capnx » Sun Aug 23, 2009 9:28 am
choose A.

"as" cannot compare nouns, only clauses/actions/verbs, so "do" is required.

small investors have the same info as do large investors.

without do, as is used to designate "quality" or "being"

He works very hard as a student.
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He works very hard as do other students.
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by joshi.v123 » Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:30 pm
IMO Only A could be correct here, rest choices seem wrong and unidiomatic to me.

What is OA?
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by ranell » Sun Aug 23, 2009 12:41 pm
capnx wrote:choose A.

"as" cannot compare nouns, only clauses/actions/verbs, so "do" is required.

small investors have the same info as do large investors.

without do, as is used to designate "quality" or "being"

He works very hard as a student.
vs
He works very hard as do other students.
Good explanation. I would go with A on the real test, not E.
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by sk8ternite » Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:23 pm
OA is E
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by joshi.v123 » Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:03 pm
here what are we comparing, information or the Institution and individual investor?

looking at this still I feel A is correct?
Correct me if I am worng.
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by siddharth rastogi » Sun Aug 23, 2009 10:20 pm
i still go with A

can anyone among the verbal guru's please explain why the OA is E?.....................
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by rookiez » Mon Aug 24, 2009 1:30 am
What's the SOURCE?
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by lunarpower » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:02 am
(a) and (e) are both grammatically ok, but (e) is ambiguous. therefore, if this problem were official - which it's most certainly not (it's a terrible question) - the correct answer would be (a).

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(e) is ambiguous.

it has 2 possible meanings:

(1) small investors have the same info about the companies' health as the larger investors have (this is clearly the intended meaning)

(2) small investors have the same info about the companies' health as they have about the larger investors.

the second is a bit strange, but you can't use "common sense" to get rid of ambiguity. if a sentence is ambiguous, it's ambiguous; tough luck.

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(a) is not ambiguous, because of the extra "do" (which is totally well placed; see next post)

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by lunarpower » Tue Aug 25, 2009 3:03 am
to whoever said this:
as do the isn't correct
whoa, no. totally wrong.

it is completely ok to have helping verbs before the noun in the 2nd half of a parallel construction such as this one.
in fact, it's not only ok, it's often REQUIRED.

example:

i know more about shakespeare than my brother
--> incorrect. ambiguous. we can't tell whether this means "i know more about shakespeare than my brother knows about shakespeare" (the presumably intended meaning) or "i know more about shakespeare than i know about my brother".

i know more about shakespeare than my brother does
i know more about shakespeare than does my brother
--> both correct.

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i know more about shakespeare than my brother, who has never taken a course in british literature
--> incorrect. ambiguous.
for the same reason as above.

i know more about shakespeare than my brother, who has never taken a course in british literature, does
--> incorrect. can't separate "my brother" from the HELPING VERB "does" with a modifier this long.

i know more about shakespeare than my brother does, who has never taken a course in british literature
--> incorrect. you can NEVER separate a noun from a "comma + who/which" modifier.

i know more about shakespeare than does my brother, who has never taken a course in british literature
--> correct.
this is the ONLY place where it's acceptable to put this "does".

for the same reason, "as do the..." is the best way to write (a), since it resolves the ambiguity and is properly placed.
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