greater vs more

[agautamdai]

Even though the costs of paying baseball players amounts to a sum greater than one half of the overall cost of operating a Major League Baseball team last year, Major League Baseball franchise owners were still willing to pay increasingly higher salaries to top players.

amounts to a sum greater
amounts to more
amounted to more
amounted to a greater sum
amounted to greater

I have no idea how can C be correct because cost is uncountable and should be compared by using greater....

[tim]

"more" can be used for countable or uncountable nouns. please make sure you are positive of rules before you apply them, or you will find yourself eliminating a lot of correct answers..

[AbhishekM995]

Hi Tim
Why E is wrong ?
Greater is used instead of more in case of numbers and here cost is a number (like temperature, volume). Please correct in case I am wrong.

[RonPurewal]

Per the forum rules, we need a citation of the original source before we can discuss a problem. Please provide such a citation; thanks.

[AbhishekM995]

Hi Ron
Just came across this thread... No Source found.
However googling "amounted to more than" gave several articles where this phrase is used for numbers (salary, costs), no such use found for "amounted to greater than".

[RonPurewal]

ok. well, we can't permit further discussion of the problem without a source. thanks.

[AkshayB963]

The question is one from Kaplan. I feel both More and Greater (preferred) are perfect in this question. Any inputs?



Regards
Akshay

[RonPurewal]

as indicated in the forum rules, Kaplan is a source we don't allow on this forum (per the explicit request of the Kaplan company itself). thanks.