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by oavasd » Thu Jun 14, 2012 4:52 pm
I ran into this example on the MGMAT:

Law students learn to think as a lawyer does.

The book claims this sentence is correct. Isn't there a parallelism issue here... shouldn't it be:

Law students learn to think as lawyers do?
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by karthikpandian19 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 5:44 pm
Here, it compares the Law students thinking with that of the Lawyer's thinking, so it should be connected with "AS"

If,
Law students like to think as lawyers do
LIKE is used when comparing nouns


We always use "as" to compare two actions/verbs and "like" to compare two nouns/pronouns.

refer this interesting thread,
https://www.beatthegmat.com/like-vs-as-t ... tml#479977
oavasd wrote:I ran into this example on the MGMAT:

Law students learn to think as a lawyer does.

The book claims this sentence is correct. Isn't there a parallelism issue here... shouldn't it be:

Law students like to think as lawyers do?
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by oavasd » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:13 pm
Woops, I made a typo in my original question. What I was confused by wasn't like vs. as but rather the parallelism going on in the sentence. Is it fine to compare the thinking of plural law school students with singular a lawyer
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by karthikpandian19 » Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:48 pm
Is it fine to compare the thinking of plural law school students with singular a lawyer
It is fine to compare the thinking of plural law school students with the thinking of singular lawyer


oavasd wrote:Woops, I made a typo in my original question. What I was confused by wasn't like vs. as but rather the parallelism going on in the sentence. Is it fine to compare the thinking of plural law school students with singular a lawyer
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Fri Jun 15, 2012 7:19 am
The comparison here is between the thinking done by both groups, not so much the law students and lawyer themselves.
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