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cesar.rodriguez.blanco
 Post subject: SC: Unlike mainstream American businesses, more than[/u] hal
 Post Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 4:44 pm 
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Can any instructor what is wrong with D?
OA is E, altough in E I thought that it is not as parallel as is D (rate...rate)

Unlike mainstream American businesses, more than half of which fail, the failure rate for businesses in the Amish community hovers around 5 percent.
A. Unlike mainstream American businesses, more than half of which fail
B. Unlike mainstream American businesses, in which the failure rate is more than half
C. Unlike mainstream American businesses, where more than half of them fail
D. While the rate of mainstream American businesses failing is more than half
E. While more than half of mainstream American businesses fail
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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: SC: Unlike mainstream American businesses, more than[/u] hal
 Post Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 4:29 am 
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cesar.rodriguez.blanco wrote:
Can any instructor what is wrong with D?
OA is E, altough in E I thought that it is not as parallel as is D (rate...rate)

Unlike mainstream American businesses, more than half of which fail, the failure rate for businesses in the Amish community hovers around 5 percent.
A. Unlike mainstream American businesses, more than half of which fail
B. Unlike mainstream American businesses, in which the failure rate is more than half
C. Unlike mainstream American businesses, where more than half of them fail
D. While the rate of mainstream American businesses failing is more than half
E. While more than half of mainstream American businesses fail


the major problem with (d) is the incorrect construction "of + NOUN + VERBing".
i wrote extensively about this topic here:
post18293.html#p18293

also, it's unidiomatic to say that a RATE is "half" (or "more/less than half"). you could say that a rate is 50%, but not "half".
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sairamramkumar
 Post subject: Re: SC: Unlike mainstream American businesses, more than[/u] hal
 Post Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2011 11:44 pm 
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Ron,

Sorry for opening the thread after 2 years. My doubt is:


You have quoted that the construction,

of+noun+ verb- ing is wrong... I have a sentence structure in mind.

The number of cars moving in the city has increased...


Is this logical??


Kindly help..



Thanks,
Sairam
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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: SC: Unlike mainstream American businesses, more than[/u] hal
 Post Posted: Thu Dec 29, 2011 1:30 pm 
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sairamramkumar wrote:
The number of cars moving in the city has increased...


Is this logical??


that construction is fine, because it's actually the number of cars. therefore, the prepositional phrase makes sense.

on the other hand, if you said something like the thought of cars moving through the city would have been unbelievable to people 150 years ago, that would be wrong -- because that construction would attempt to have the action (moving) as the object of the preposition.
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