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by nikhilsrl » Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:16 am
Compared with the 1906 earthquake, the 1989 San Francisco earthquake was smaller in magnitude but did more structural damage.

a) Compared with
b) In comparison with
c) In comparing
d) As compared to
e) Comparing

[spoiler]OA is A and the explanation says that B & D are wordy but are they really that wordy.[/spoiler]
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by AIM GMAT » Sat Mar 19, 2011 3:20 am
Well if you see , its logical , 2 words are always preferd over 3 words :) . Anyways whats the source ??

I read somewhere that GMAT doesnt stressess over the use of "compared with " and "compared to".
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by pesfunk » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:07 am
We use:

Compared with => to compare similar things
Compared to => to compare 2 dissimilar things, eg: he compared her beauty to that of Moon....blah blah....
AIM GMAT wrote:Well if you see , its logical , 2 words are always preferd over 3 words :) . Anyways whats the source ??

I read somewhere that GMAT doesnt stressess over the use of "compared with " and "compared to".
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by gmat_perfect » Sat Mar 19, 2011 5:36 am
nikhilsrl wrote:Compared with the 1906 earthquake, the 1989 San Francisco earthquake was smaller in magnitude but did more structural damage.

a) Compared with
b) In comparison with
c) In comparing
d) As compared to
e) Comparing

[spoiler]OA is A and the explanation says that B & D are wordy but are they really that wordy.[/spoiler]
GMAT does not distinguish between "compared with" and "Compared to".

Compared with X, Y:, where X and Y MUST be grammatically and logically parallel.

"As compared to X, Y" is NOT idiomatic.

So, A is the only option that used the idiom correctly.

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by nikhilsrl » Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:20 am
AIM GMAT wrote:Well if you see , its logical , 2 words are always preferd over 3 words :) . Anyways whats the source ??

I read somewhere that GMAT doesnt stressess over the use of "compared with " and "compared to".
Source is Kaplan.
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by nikhilsrl » Sat Mar 19, 2011 7:23 am
As compared to X, Y" is NOT idiomatic.

gmat_perfect, Thats sounds a better reason to me than saying it is wordy :)
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by sohrabkalra » Fri Dec 09, 2011 3:18 am
Why is "As compared to x,y" not idiomatic ...
I just did a google search on the patents with that idiom and heres what i got.. (look at the first highlighted instance in this patent publication)

https://www.google.com/patents?id=9k2XAA ... 22&f=false

So is wordiness of 1 more word the only cause for eliminating A?
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