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saurabhbhardwaj
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Post subject: * Comparison  Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 12:14 pm |
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Balding is much more common among White males than males of other races.
(A) than
(B) than among
(C) than is so of
(D) compared to
(E) in comparison with
OA = B
Im still not clear why A is incorrect. Are we not comparing WHITE MALES with MALES of other races? I think A is also comparing the same two sets of people.
Comparison WITH also means comparing differences. Can someone please explain why A) and E) are incorrect?
I know the correct answer is because of parallelism, but How is it better than B) do we give more weightage to parallelism when we have a choice available with parallelism?
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Post subject: Re: Comparison Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 12:46 pm |
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i have the same q? MGMT staff?
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Post subject: Re: Comparison Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 2:19 am |
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Please cite the source (author) of this problem. We cannot reply unless a source is cited (and, if no source is cited, we will have to delete the post!). Thanks.
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i.ahmed111
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Post subject: Re: * Comparison Posted: Fri Jan 15, 2010 8:22 pm |
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this is a gmat prep question...saw it on the first test...
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Post subject: Re: * Comparison Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 2:59 am |
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i.ahmed111 wrote: this is a gmat prep question...saw it on the first test... does anyone have a screen shot of this problem? for a couple of reasons, this doesn't really seem like an official question. before we proceed with answering it, we'd like to see a screenshot, just as verification. sorry if that causes any inconvenience.
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Post subject: Re: * Comparison Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:17 am |
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Hi Ron,
I have read a lot of your posts. Your explanation style is very clear & make the point really well.
This is q# 254 from og 10. Can you please explain what makes a better than b.
I think "among" being repeated - it's redundant.
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Aman
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Post subject: Re: * Comparison Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 4:24 am |
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By the way, the OA explanation is
"B, the best choice, correctly uses the idiomatic construction more common among x than among y. In A, the
comparison is not parallel and not clear; one illogical but available reading is that balding is more common
among White males than are males of other races. To be clear, the sentence should read more common
among White males than among ...."
I must say that OG writers have quite a sense of humor!
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Post subject: Re: * Comparison Posted: Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:30 pm |
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saurabhbhardwaj wrote: Balding is much more common among White males than males of other races.
(A) than
(B) than among
(C) than is so of
(D) compared to
(E) in comparison with
OA = B
Im still not clear why A is incorrect. Are we not comparing WHITE MALES with MALES of other races? I think A is also comparing the same two sets of people.
Comparison WITH also means comparing differences. Can someone please explain why A) and E) are incorrect?
I know the correct answer is because of parallelism, but How is it better than B) do we give more weightage to parallelism when we have a choice available with parallelism? Though I'm sure but I believe A is wrong because it sounds like we are comparing "balding" with the "males of other races". So, we need to add "among". Secondly, when describing the similarities between unlike things, the idiom “compare to” is used. When describing the differences between like things, the idiom “compare with” is used. In option E, we are not describing the difference..
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Post subject: Re: * Comparison Posted: Sun Sep 04, 2011 11:56 pm |
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Thanks. :-)
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Post subject: Re: * Comparison Posted: Sun Nov 06, 2011 10:49 am |
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but in C, than is so of, I think the error is "so" is not clear right?
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Post subject: Re: * Comparison Posted: Mon Dec 12, 2011 3:23 am |
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the problem is that the comparison must be between the "among" phrases. clarity of an answer choice is not an issue if it is grammatically incorrect to start with..
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