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by force5 » Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:53 am
This type has always been a problem for me. Can anyone suggest how to do these comparisons.
i really don't understand whether i should trust my ears or not??most of them sound fine to me.


According to many, the tea one finds in India is far better than the United States.
A. the tea one finds in India is far better than the United States. ( can this not be read as - the tea one finds.... than.... the tea one finds in united states)
B. the tea one finds in India is far better than that of United States.
C. the tea of India is far better than the United States. ( tea of india is incorrect)
D. the tea one finds in India is far better than the tea in the United States. ( can this not be read as- the tea one finds.....than the tea one finds in the united states)
E. the tea in India is far better in the United States. (missing than)

Then what is the error in A, B and D?? can you please suggest a way to answer these kinda questions. they are very tricky.
THE OA is B
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by AIM GMAT » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:01 am
IMO B.

For such questions need to check what is compared with what . The comparison should be correct .
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by aspirant2011 » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:43 am
Hi AIMGMAT,

Why is D wrong????
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by HSPA » Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:47 am
indefinite pronoun : one .. it shall be used through out if used at all


the tea one finds in India is far better than the tea one finds in USA.
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by tetura84 » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:29 am
force5 wrote:This type has always been a problem for me. Can anyone suggest how to do these comparisons.
i really don't understand whether i should trust my ears or not??most of them sound fine to me.


According to many, the tea one finds in India is far better than the United States.
A. the tea one finds in India is far better than the United States. ( can this not be read as - the tea one finds.... than.... the tea one finds in united states)
B. the tea one finds in India is far better than that of United States.
C. the tea of India is far better than the United States. ( tea of india is incorrect)
D. the tea one finds in India is far better than the tea in the United States. ( can this not be read as- the tea one finds.....than the tea one finds in the united states)
E. the tea in India is far better in the United States. (missing than)

Then what is the error in A, B and D?? can you please suggest a way to answer these kinda questions. they are very tricky.
THE OA is B
Guys, what I feel is, when we read original sentence, we should try to understand the meaning and find some error.
And one most important thing, do not ever trust your ear. This is very important to non native English speakers like us (not sure if you are but for non native English speakers).
Now lets read the sentence,
According to many, the tea one finds in India is far better than the United States
we can ignore - According to many.
the tea one finds in India is far better than the United States =
now in this sentence, one finds in India is a modifier, modifies tea = and as we know, we can omit the modifier
So the sentence becomes,
the tea ... is far better than the US = what?? we can clearly see the comparison is wrong.
Same with C
the tea of India is far better than the United States. = of India is modifier.
the tea ... is far better than the US = wrong
D, I think more stylistic error that indefinite pronoun.
the tea one finds in India is far better than the tea one finds in the United States
E is wrong for using incorrect idiom.

Now look at B.
the tea one finds in India is far better than that of United States.
If we omit the modifier, sentence reads like,
the tea .... is far better than that of United States. = that clearly refers to the tea
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by aspirant2011 » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:34 am
Hi Tetura 84,

If we remove "one finds in India" i.e the modifier in D then I feel that D is also correct as the comparison being done is correct............wat do u say???
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by tetura84 » Tue Mar 15, 2011 9:47 am
aspirant2011 wrote:Hi Tetura 84,

If we remove "one finds in India" i.e the modifier in D then I feel that D is also correct as the comparison being done is correct............wat do u say???
Yeh, in that case, the tea is redundant.
Remember, what we try to do is, eliminate 4 incorrect choices.
So between B & D, I will eliminate D because of redundancy.
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by AIM GMAT » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:24 am
Rightly said by tetura84 , i agree , you will also have to keep a watch on redundancy , only correctness of answer is not the guaranteed success. Also about trusting the ear is true for native speakers or for person residing in US who is very much familiar with idioms not for non native speaker .
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by 800target » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:07 am
Can somebody come and EXPLAIN CLEARLY with STRONG and GRAMMATICAL CLUE, why answer choice D is wrong??? Because, it seems fine to me!
Mitch, Ron,...experts please come and help us. Thanks in advance.
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by GMATMadeEasy » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:15 am
I agree with 800target , need expert help on D.

D. the tea one finds in India is far better than the tea in the United States.
One error i suspect is we can't use the 'tea' in second part as it will refer to the same tea and that is not possible. But need to know what are other errors in it ? and can we replace 'the tea' in second part with 'one' ?
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by MAAJ » Wed Mar 16, 2011 10:45 am
800target wrote:Can somebody come and EXPLAIN CLEARLY with STRONG and GRAMMATICAL CLUE, why answer choice D is wrong??? Because, it seems fine to me!
Mitch, Ron,...experts please come and help us. Thanks in advance.
For me it's the change in meaning, and that the two things that are being compared are not similar enough.

The tea one finds in India (Tea found in India) is far better than the tea in the United States (General tea in USA; doesn't mean that the tea is from or is found in USA)

IMO the meaning changes if you put "one finds" after tea, and that way D could be correct:

The tea one finds in India (Tea found in India) is far better than the tea one finds in the United States (Tea found in USA)
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by Target2009 » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:04 pm
IMO B
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by coolly01 » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:56 pm
I'll pick C
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by bubbliiiiiiii » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:01 pm
Firstly formatting the question and answer choices.
force5 wrote: According to many, the tea one finds in India is far better than the United States.
A. the tea one finds in India is far better than the United States.
The tea in India is comapared to United states - Comparison Error.
B. the tea one finds in India is far better than that of United States.
Tea in India is properly compared with tea in United States by using 'that of'
C. the tea of India is far better than the United States.
Tea is comapared to United States - Comparison error
D. the tea one finds in India is far better than the tea in the United States.
Parallelism not maintained. Parts of the sentences which are compared must be parallel.
E. the tea in India is far better in the United States.
Improper construction

THE OA is B
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