OG 18 Que 704 Why E is correct ??
Traffic safety officials predict that drivers will be
equally likely to exceed the proposed speed limit as
the current one.
(A) equally likely to exceed the proposed speed limit
as
(B) equally likely to exceed the proposed speed limit
as they are
(C) equally likely that they will exceed the proposed
speed limit as
(D) as likely that they will exceed the proposed
speed limit as
(E) as likely to exceed the proposed speed limit as
they are
in option E they is a pronoun ambiguity and the sentence is not meaningful
Option E is meaningful. Option E in other words:
“Drivers are as likely to exceed the proposed speed limit as they are likely to exceed the current speed limit”
It is just that certain parts of sentence are not repeated. I think, such omission of identical words is called ellipsis.
Shilpi and Sandeep,
Option E does expand as mentioned by Sandeep – Drivers are as likely to exceed the proposed speed limit as they are likely to exceed the current speed limit. The omission of words without changing the meaning of the sentence is known as ellipsis.
