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by sogmat » Tue Apr 07, 2009 7:27 pm
Unlike the acid smoke of cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke too irritating to be drawn into the lungs.
(A) Unlike the acid smoke of cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke
(B) Unlike the acid smoke of cigarettes, pipe tobacco is cured by age-old methods, yielding an alkaline smoke
(C) Unlike cigarette tobacco, which yields an acid smoke, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke
(D) Differing from cigarettes’ acid smoke, pipe tobacco’s alkaline smoke, cured by age-old methods, is
(E) The alkaline smoke of pipe tobacco differs from cigarettes’ acid smoke in that it is cured by age-old methods and is

OA C
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by gmat740 » Tue Apr 07, 2009 8:22 pm
Idiom and Parallelism

Unlike X,Y

X and Y have to be parallel
C) Unlike cigarette tobacco, which yields an acid smoke, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke

The Bold part is parallel to the underline part

Rest of the Options have no parallel answers

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Karan
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by magnetronclassic » Wed Nov 24, 2010 11:01 pm
I dont understand how C is correct..I feel that cured by age old methods modifies pipe tobacco in option C which seems wrong to me..

Option D is a better comparison(with correctly placed modifiers) for me..

Experts can you please comment!!!
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by magnetronclassic » Thu Nov 25, 2010 5:50 pm
Any takers???
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by saurabh_maths » Fri Nov 26, 2010 9:08 am
Unlike the acid smoke of cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke too irritating to be drawn into the lungs.
(A) Unlike the acid smoke of cigarettes, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke
(B) Unlike the acid smoke of cigarettes, pipe tobacco is cured by age-old methods, yielding an alkaline smoke
(C) Unlike cigarette tobacco, which yields an acid smoke, pipe tobacco, cured by age-old methods, yields an alkaline smoke
(D) Differing from cigarettes' acid smoke, pipe tobacco's alkaline smoke, cured by age-old methods, is
(E) The alkaline smoke of pipe tobacco differs from cigarettes' acid smoke in that it is cured by age-old methods and is


IMO it shd be C.

A, B - incoorectly compares the acid smoke of cigrattes to pipe tobacco.
D is Unidiomatic. better to use Unlike.
E is wordy and also usage of 'in that' is incorrect.
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