Results of a United States study published in the

[JingziL752]

Results of a United States study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine have shown college-educated women and women living in the South and West to be significantly more likely to be using supplemental hormones as women living in the Northeast and Midwest.

A.college-educated women and women living in the South and West to be significantly more likely to be using supplemental hormones as women living
B.college-educated women and women living in the South and West as significantly more likely to use supplemental hormones than if they are living
C.college-educated women and those living in the South and West being significantly more likely to use supplemental hormones than if they lived
D.that college-educated women and women who live in the South and West are significantly more likely to be using supplemental hormones as were women that lived
E.that college-educated women and women living in the South and West are significantly more likely to use supplemental hormones than women living


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Hi tutor, I have one specific question about choice D. Is the verb tense in choice D wrong? (beside the more... as... problem) Because it is comparing "the women who... are " （simple present time) with the " women were..." (simple past time).
Just want to know whether I am thinking in the right way! Thank you!!!

[Sage Pearce-Higgins]

Here the difference in tense is wrong. The study is clearly comparing the two groups of women living in different areas at the same time. So, yes, that is a problem with D.

However, don't be too rigid with comparisons and parallelism. You could easily think of a situation in which you need to use different tenses, for example the sentence "People who live in America now watch less T.V. than those who lived in America 30 years ago." is fine.

[JingziL752]

Very clear explanation! Thank you Sage!

[Sage Pearce-Higgins]