Like English and Italian, each of which have elaborate rules for forming words and sentences, so sign languages have rules for individual signs and signed sentences.
(A) Like English and Italian, each of which have elaborate rules for forming
(B) Similar to the elaborate rules that English and Italian have to form
(C) Just as English and Italian have elaborate rules for forming
(D) As with English and Italian, both having elaborate rules to form
(E) In the same way that there are elaborate rules used to form English and Italian
[spoiler]OA: C[/spoiler]
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The thing that's wrong with A is that after the use of LIKE in this sentence, SO has no function and is sitting there like a shag on a rock.
Also, EACH is singular, so HAVE should be HAS.
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Also, EACH is singular, so HAVE should be HAS.
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First, B has the same problem that A has: Similar to x.... so y, is incorrect. The 'so,' as Fabio pointed out, has no function, and is unidiomatic. Moreover, you've got an illogical comparison. Answer choice B compares "rules" to "sign language." It would be more logical to compare French and English to sign language (language to language) or to compare the rules of English and French to the rules of sign language (rules to rules.)jain2016 wrote:Hi All ,
Can you please also advise the reason to eliminate option B?
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Even if SIMILAR TO were a good way to begin a sentence, it would not work here: the sentence is illogically comparing ELABORATE RULES with the clause SIGN LANGUAGES HAVE RULES. The initial construction makes SO as superfluous here as it is in option A. And the idiom is peculiar: English and Italian have rules FOR FORMING sentences, not rules TO FORM them.
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I received a PM requesting that I comment.gmat_for_life wrote:Can anybody explain what's wrong with option A?
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An introductory noun modifier must serve to refer to the FIRST WORD of the main clause.
A: Like English and Italian, so sign languages have rules.
Here, like English and Italian (an introductory noun modifier) does not refer to the first word of the main clause (so).
Eliminate A.
B: Similar to elaborate rules, so sign languages have rules.
Here, similar to English and Italian (an introductory noun modifier) does not refer to the first word of the main clause (so).
Eliminate B.
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There are plenty of good examples of introductory noun modifiers (in red) in Official Guide OA's:
A leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Adam Smith wrote two major books that are to democratic capitalism what Marx's Das Kapital is to socialism.
Digging in sediments in northern China, scientists have gathered evidence suggesting that complex life-forms emerged much earlier than previously thought.
Unlike the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly without dying and carries a potent venom that can cause intense pain.
A leading figure in the Scottish Enlightenment, Adam Smith wrote two major books that are to democratic capitalism what Marx's Das Kapital is to socialism.
Digging in sediments in northern China, scientists have gathered evidence suggesting that complex life-forms emerged much earlier than previously thought.
Unlike the honeybee, the yellow jacket can sting repeatedly without dying and carries a potent venom that can cause intense pain.
