Mo2men wrote:Dear GMATGuru,
Can you comment help understand OA? 'as much as' should compare tow clauses but here is compares adjective ' containing ........' and 'Sun'. I assumes there is omitted verb in the clause 'the sun contains or does'.
Thanks in advance
OA:
A neutron star, as small as 12 miles in diameter but containing half as much matter as the Sun, has a gravitational force at its surface about 67 billion times greater than that on Earth.
The green portion conveys the following meaning:
[A neutron star is] containing half as much matter as the Sun [is containing].
The words in brackets are omitted so that the green portion can serve as a modifier -- a modifier parallel with the preceding blue modifier.
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