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IDIOM AVERAGE

by Meerak869 Wed Aug 27, 2014 9:43 am

It is written in MGMAT SC GUIDE - IDIOMS STRATGY.

Tech COMPANIES are as likely as the AVERAGE COMPANY to fail.

Is this sentence parallel. Because "TECH COMPANIES" refers to "AVERAGE COMPANY".
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Re: IDIOM AVERAGE

by jnelson0612 Fri Aug 29, 2014 12:00 pm

Meerak869 Wrote:It is written in MGMAT SC GUIDE - IDIOMS STRATGY.

Tech COMPANIES are as likely as the AVERAGE COMPANY to fail.

Is this sentence parallel. Because "TECH COMPANIES" refers to "AVERAGE COMPANY".


Could you provide a page number, please?

In this case, there is a comparison between "tech companies" and "the average company". Since those two are logically similar, the comparison appears to be valid.
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Re: IDIOM AVERAGE

by Meerak869 Fri Aug 29, 2014 1:28 pm

In chapter 9, IDIOMS, Page no 148, Under idiom "Average"
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Re: IDIOM AVERAGE

by tim Sat Aug 30, 2014 11:00 pm

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Re: IDIOM AVERAGE

by govindawathe Mon Mar 19, 2018 10:25 am

Shouldn't it be "an Average Company to fail" instead of "the Average Company to fail".

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Re: IDIOM AVERAGE

by Sage Pearce-Higgins Fri Mar 23, 2018 1:02 pm

It could be either. We often speak of "The average ..." as a sort of imaginary archetype. For example, 'The average American lives until the age of 80.' is a totally correct sentence.
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