Sentence Correction

Wood-burning fireplaces may elicit warm memories of a simpler era, but chimney sweeps point out that wood-burning fireplaces take three times as long as cleaning gas fireplaces.

A. wood-burning fireplaces take three times as long as cleaning gas fireplaces

B. wood-burning fireplaces take three times as long to clean as gas fireplaces do

C. cleaning wood-burning fireplaces takes three times as long as gas fireplaces do

D. wood-burning fireplaces take three times as long as it does for gas fireplaces

E. to clean gas fireplaces takes three times as long as for gas fireplaces

OA later after discussions.

IMO B

confused between B and C but C got faulty parallelism. Cleaning of A is compared with B not cleaning of B.

vote for B

clock60 wrote:vote for B

Hi Mike,

It ll be useful for others if u share ur explanations.

my pick C
for it can be written as.... cleaning wood-burning fireplaces takes three times as long as cleaning gas fireplaces do
parallelism.....
cleaning......takes

i`ll try but not sure neither in my answer nor in explanation..
seems like sentence tests||-ism
a) compare fireplaces with clearning
c) compare cleaning with gas fires
d) it- has no refferent
e)compare to clean with gas station

B is the only option that compares correctly.

A - Xs take 3 times as long as cleaning Ys - Incorrect.
C - cleaning Xs takes 3 times as long as Ys do. - Incorrect.
D - Xs take 3 times as long as it does for Ys. - Incorrect.
E - to clean Xs takes 3 times as long as for Ys. - Incorrect.

OA B