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by arora007 » Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:03 am
Today, even when rustlers are convicted, their sentences tend to be light compared to the days of the early West when cattle rustlers were hanged from the nearest tree.

(A) compared to the days of the early West when
(B) compared with those in the days of the early West in which
(C) compared with those in the days of the early West when
(D) in comparison with them of the early Western days when
(E) in comparison to the days of the early West in which


[spoiler]OA is C, posting this as I marked it A,
needed to recall the rule compared with and not compared to is for similar things...[/spoiler]
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by kvcpk » Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:18 am
"compared with and not compared to is for similar things"

You are right..

Also, "when" is required in the end to indicate time.
And, "those" is also required to get right comparison.

This also narrows down to C.
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by paes » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:00 am
IMO C

I have not seen any OG problem based on the difference of 'compared with' vs 'compared to'
[Even I have read somewhere that it was a rule not tested in GMAT]

Just forget the rule, and see the problem.
only B, C are making the right comparison.

C is better because of the usage 'when'
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by sumanr84 » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:03 am
paes wrote:IMO C

I have not seen any OG problem based on the difference of 'compared with' vs 'compared to'
[Even I have read somewhere that it was a rule not tested in GMAT]
paes is right about it.
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by neha.patni » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:07 am
arora007 wrote:Today, even when rustlers are convicted, their sentences tend to be light compared to the days of the early West when cattle rustlers were hanged from the nearest tree.

(A) compared to the days of the early West when
(B) compared with those in the days of the early West in which
(C) compared with those in the days of the early West when
(D) in comparison with them of the early Western days when
(E) in comparison to the days of the early West in which


[spoiler]OA is C, posting this as I marked it A,
needed to recall the rule compared with and not compared to is for similar things...[/spoiler]
IMO C

A, E - Days compared with sentences
D - wordy
B - days are compared so it should be when

hence C
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by gmatmachoman » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:09 am
Peas awesome!!
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by arora007 » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:39 am
well... A could have been kicked out via parallelism...

and yes... i've traked down this post by Ron which you all guys are discussing... cool...
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/whe ... t2071.html

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by pesfunk » Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:33 pm
Compare with OR Compare to >>> https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/whe ... t2071.html
arora007 wrote:well... A could have been kicked out via parallelism...

and yes... i've traked down this post by Ron which you all guys are discussing... cool...
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/whe ... t2071.html

I don't know what I would have done without the forums...
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by nisha.menon294 » Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:35 am
i have a question. I had thought that we use "when " in cases where we want to refer to a particular point in time an "in which" for cases where we refer to a time period. In this case early days is a time period as well. so why cant we use " in which" ? Thanks ..
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