Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: A decade after initiating the nation's most comprehensive

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(A) per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs annually per person to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as - Modifier error. We need a noun that initiated the nation's most comprehensiveprogram....

(B) annual per capita consumption of cigarettes in California declined from over 125 packs to about 60, more than twice as great as that - Modifier error. We need a noun that initiated the nation's most comprehensiveprogram....

(C) California's annual per capita consumption of cigarettes declined from over 125 packs per person to about 60, more than twice as great as the drop - Modifier error. We need a noun that initiated the nation's most comprehensive program....Per capita hasn't initiated it. Moreover, per capita....per person means the same thing - redundancy.

(D) California has seen per capita consumption of cigarettes decline from over 125 packs annually to about 60, a drop more than twice as great as that -[highlight]
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Statistics : Posted by RD109 • on 06 Oct 2009, 06:24 • Replies 35 • Views 39835

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