请教885-6-1

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

(E) number of women employed outside the home was raised by more than a thirty-five percent increase.

为什么B不可以呢，grow 不可以，而要用increase  呢

Because a count of women employed outside the home at any given time will be expressed by a single number, the use of the plural noun numbers in choices A, B, and C is illogical. In A, the phrase grew by more than a thirty-five percent increase is redundant and wordy, since the sense of increase is implicit in the verb grew. In C and E, the passive verb forms were raised and was raised are inappropriate because there is no identifiable agent responsible for the raising of the number of women employed. (没有明确的主体时，不要用被动) In choice E, was raised by... increase is redundant. Choice D, which presents the comparison logically and idiomatically, is the best answer.

对于D选项有疑问，increased by前面不需要有is吗？否则的话，states that 的宾语从句不久缺少谓语了吗？and accounted for 也没有并列的谓语啊？请斑竹、NN能够指点一下？

D. number of women employed outside the home increased by more than thirty-five percent