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Posted: Mon Jun 23, 2008 10:23 pm

Ron,

I've found one case from PERP. As you mentioned above, is "will soar to a level more than one-third higher than " also right? the OA is B.

If current trends continue, by the year 2010 carbon emissions in the United States will soar to a level more than one-third higher than were those in 1990, according to official projections.
(A) Same
(B) will soar to a level more than one-third higher than that
(C) would soar to a level more than one-third higher than it was
(D) would soar to a level more than one-third higher than those
(E) would soar to a level more than one-third higher than they were
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Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:46 pm

RPurewal wrote:

GMATboy wrote:

one concern about parallelism: should choice "its numbers are now five times greater than" be "its numbers are now five times greater than those"? thanks

linguistically correct answer:
no, because 'when the use of ddt was...' is, or at least can be interpreted as, an adverb phrase (not an adjective phrase).
if the descriptive phrase placed there were an adjective phrase (or were being interpreted as one, at least), you'd want 'those' to assure a parallel construction.

Hi Ron,

Could you please provide an example to clarify ... with adjectival and adverbial phrases...

X has more money now than when the stock market crashed
X has more money now than in 1988
X has more money than he had in 1988

are these all correct.... ???

thanks in advance

Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:47 pm

sorry..wrong question...belongs somewhere else...pls ignore...

Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 1:29 am

Gellar, your version would be correct since "in 1990" is an adverbial phrase, per Ron's posting.

Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 1:23 pm

Hi Ron,

Could you please provide an example to clarify ... with adjectival and adverbial phrases...

X has more money now than when the stock market crashed
X has more money now than in 1988
X has more money than he had in 1988

are these all correct.... ???

thanks in advance -

Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 3:50 am

Anon wrote:

Hi Ron,

Could you please provide an example to clarify ... with adjectival and adverbial phrases...

X has more money now than when the stock market crashed
X has more money now than in 1988
X has more money than he had in 1988

are these all correct.... ???

thanks in advance -

i don't think the gmat would like any of these constructions all that much.

first two: the gmat would probably ding these for not changing the tensed verb. when you have a parallel structure, the common parts (here, "has ... money") are assumed to apply equally to both parts of the structure; applying that principle here leads to the conclusion that the present tense (has) is being applied to both halves of the parallel construction, including the second half (which is obviously a past event).

in other words: the second sentence expands as "x has more money now than he has in 1988". that's wrong.
the same type of thing applies to the first sentence - again, the second half needs a verb that's fixed in the past tense.

the third part seems fine, although there's something slightly undesirable about it (i can't put my finger on it exactly).