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    • Sentence Correction #9

    Saturday, August 05, 2006


    A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.


    (A) numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase


    (B) numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent


    (C) numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent


    (D) number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent


    (E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase


    Note: Post your answer along with an explanation if required. Highlight this note to check your answer. Answer: D

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    • 1 Comments:

    At 9:03 PM,Blogger Bigg Boss said...

    A, B and C are out because of the usage "numbers of women" it should be "number of women", also A and E are wordy, there is no need for both the words "grew" and "increase" in same sentence. "raised" in C and D is wrong usage, numbers cannot be raised. Hence D.

     

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