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Question:

For the underlined part of the given sentence, choose the option that is grammatically correct, effective and reduces ambiguity and redundancy.

Saundarya’s Skin Nourishing cream sold 5 lakh packs last quarter, 20% more than their Face Wash did and nearly five times as much as their Anti-Ageing cream sales.

Explanation:

Option 1 is incorrect, since it has an error in parallelism: “Face Wash did” ends in a verb while “Anti-Ageing cream sales” ends in a noun.
Option 2 is incorrect, since it has an error in parallelism: “Face Wash sold” ends in a verb while “Anti-Ageing cream sales” ends in a noun. Also, it is missing the possessive pronoun “their” before Anti-Ageing cream sales.
Option 3 is correct, since the two parts of the sentence are parallel (both nouns).
Option 4 is incorrect, since it is missing the possessive pronoun “their” before Anti-Ageing cream sales were.
Hence, the correct answer is option 3.

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