428. Inflation has made many Americans reevaluate their assumptions about the future; they still expect to live better than their parents have, but not so well as they once thought they could.

(A) they still expect to live better than their parents have
(B) they still expect to live better than their parents did
(C) they still expect to live better than their parents had
(D) still expecting to live better than their parents had
(E) still expecting to live better than did their parents

Solution:

Logical + Tenses + Parallelism

After semi colon, there should be an independent clause but in D and E “still expecting…” is not independent.
A: “parents have(lived)…”à “parents have lived up to…” Illogical.
C: “parents had(lived)…”à past perfect tense is incorrect.
B: “expect to live better than their parents did(live)…” maintains parallelism. Best choice.

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