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comparisons - tycoon conrtibuted

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namurad
 Post subject: comparisons - tycoon conrtibuted
 Post Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 2:11 pm 
Q15 - Chapter 7 comparisons

The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than anyone else in the industry.

Rectified version - "The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than did anyone else in the industry."

Should the correct parallel structure be - "The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than anyone else did in the industry."

Tycoon contributed || anyone else did[/b]
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rfernandez
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 Post Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 5:33 pm 
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In the original (wrong) sentence, the comparison was set up to be between "the tycoon contributed" and "anyone else." Not a parallel comparison.

The answer key sentence fixes the problem by comparing "the tycoon contributed" and "did anyone else." We need that verb "did" in there to make it both logically and structurally similar.

Your solution is admittedly even more parallel by virtue of the order of the wording. That said, both version can be deemed correct. If both were to appear on a GMAT problem, you could argue that your version is superior because it's more parallel. In all likelihood, though, these two version would probably not be pitted against each other on a real GMAT problem.

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pranabiitkgp
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 Post Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2011 2:38 am 
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I see this explanation faulty .
In the actual sense 'the tycoon' is compared with 'anyone else' . But if we shift the verb 'did' after ''anyone else' it is appearing as the tycoon contributed more to X than [to] Y.
Expert advice ?

Thanks .
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jnelson0612
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 Post Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2011 12:08 am 
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pranabiitkgp wrote:
I see this explanation faulty .
In the actual sense 'the tycoon' is compared with 'anyone else' . But if we shift the verb 'did' after ''anyone else' it is appearing as the tycoon contributed more to X than [to] Y.
Expert advice ?

Thanks .


The correct basic structure here is "X is more than Y". We have to identify what the two elements are to see if they are able to be compared.

The sentence proposed by another poster which you do not agree with is:
"The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than anyone else did in the industry."

Let's look at the X and Y elements. In this case X="tycoon contributed" and the Y="anyone else did". So the basic sentence is:
"the tycoon contributed MORE THAN anyone else did".

We have a noun and a verb in both sentences; "tycoon" and "anyone else" are our nouns and "contributed" and "did" are our verbs. This sentence is parallel and thus grammatically correct.

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