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by punitkaur » Sun Nov 15, 2009 10:33 am
Studies of test scores show that watching television has a markedly positive effect on children whose parents speak English as a second language, as compared to those who are native English speakers.

A) to those who are

B) with children who are

C) with

D) to those whose parents are

E) with children whose parents are
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by Elena392 » Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:14 am
The answer is E.
It is the only case in which both parts of sentence are fully parallel: children whose parents (in non-underlined part)....as compared with children whose parents are....(in underlined part). I must note that the idiom must be compare with, not compare to because the sentence shows us differences, not similarities.
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by punitkaur » Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:17 am
So If D has "with" instead of "to" would D also be correct? I am curious to know if the problem is with compare with/to or the pronoun "those". I had chosen D as I thought "those" to be referring to children and hence parallel.
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by gmatv09 » Sun Nov 15, 2009 12:09 pm
IMO E ...

"Compare with" is used to compare similar things
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