Question

A Labor Department study states that the numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase in the past decade and accounted for more than sixty-two percent of the total growth in the civilian work force.

• A. numbers of women employed outside the home grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase
• B. numbers of women employed outside the home grew more than thirty-five percent
• C. numbers of women employed outside the home were raised by more than thirty-five percent
• D. number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent

Answer 1

The correct option is D number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent

The answer will be Option "D".

It clearly rectifies the errors in the sentence:-

1) Use of numbers is wrong.
2) Words grew and increase brings in redundancy in the sentence.