(A) Senior executives had a larger percentage increase in pay in 1990 than
(B) The percentage of senior executives’ pay increase in 1990 was larger than for
(C) The 1990 increase in pay for senior executives was larger in terms of percentage than
(D) In 1990 senior executives had a larger pay increase in terms of percentage than did
(E) The pay of senior executives increased in 1990 by a larger percentage than did
Solution:
Parallelism + Idioms
In A, parallelism is violated.
In B, “than for” is not idiomatic.
In C, parallelism is violated. “increase” is being compared to “wages”.
In D, parallelism is violated. “senior executives had…did…”
In E, parallelism is maintained. Hence, E is the best choice.
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