Sentence Correction

hanspaul wrote:Quoted from OG

Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the
Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an
ancient civilization that flourished at the same time
as the civilizations in the Nile Delta and the river
valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.

According to what I have learnt, when using "as" for comparison, 2 clauses are being compared. The above OG sentence is a correct sentence in OG. I think we are missing a verb in the second clause that describe the civilization in the Nile Delta.

I think the sentence should be:

Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the
Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an
ancient civilization that flourished at the same time
as did the civilizations in the Nile Delta and the river
valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.

hanspaul wrote:Sorry, here is the original question.

Salt deposits and moisture threaten to destroy the
Mohenjo-Daro excavation in Pakistan, the site of an
ancient civilization that flourished at the same time
as the civilizations in the Nile Delta and the river
valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates.
(A) that flourished at the same time as the
civilizations
(B) that had flourished at the same time as had
the civilizations
(C) that flourished at the same time those had
(D) flourishing at the same time as those did
(E) flourishing at the same time as those were

Rezinka wrote:GMAT is about selecting the best answer choice. Out of all the choices in the stated question, only A fits.
We do not look for the correct answer, but the best possible answer out of the options given.

mundasingh123 wrote:Please consider the sentence below
"The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than anyone else in the industry"

Guys i know i know its a long post but i request that you be a bit patient and go through my reply and weigh my response.
@Ron
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/pos ... html#p4074
Ron u found the above sentence to be ambiguous and gave an example of a similar sentence to point out 2 interpretations (a) and (b) quoted below.
As per ron
as an example of a construction that is genuinely ambiguous, consider the following:
the tycoon supported Jones more than anyone else in the industry
this sentence genuinely has two meanings: (a) the tycoon supported jones more than the tycoon supported anyone else; (b) the tycoon supported jones more than anyone else supported jones.
the key to the ambiguity of this sentence (and also the key to why the preceding sentence is NOT ambiguous) is the fact that all three of "the tycoon", "jones", and "anyone else" are parallel -- they are all people -- and thus that both (a) and (b) above are properly parallel comparisons.

in the original example, the only two parallel constructions are "the tycoon" and "anyone else", so that sentence is unambiguous even without the helping verb.

@Ron, the candidate is not there in the sentence below
"The tycoon contributed more to the candidate's campaign than anyone else in the industry"
Cant Interpretation (a) of the sentence be overruled because campaign is an inanimate thing and "anyone else " in the industry is a person.so how can campaign and person be parallel[/url]