Sentence Correction

Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies-less than those killed by bee stings.
A. movies-less than those
B. movies-fewer than have been
C. movies, which is less than those
D. movies, a number lower than the people
E. movies, fewer than the ones

OA is B. But I could not figure out any error in E. Could someone explain .

GMATMadeEasy wrote:Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, the man-eater of the movies-less than those killed by bee stings.

B. movies-fewer than have been
E. movies, fewer than the ones

OA is B. But I could not figure out any error in E. Could someone explain .

In option E, the NUMBER(seven people) is being compared to PEOPLE

ONLY SEVEN PEOPLE this century have been killed by the great white shark. -> refers to NUMBER/COUNT of people killed
THE ONES killed by bee strings -> refers to people killed by bee string.

Option B,
FEWER than the NUMBER of PEOPLE that have been by bee stings.

I hope this helps
Thanks

Apart from this parallelism is also there in option B i.e seven people have been killed // fewer than have been

Can we have detailed explanation. i too opted for E

Hey guys,

Sameer nailed it on this one! Choice E is incorrectly trying to compare the number (seven have been killed) to the people (fewer than the ones...). And that doesn't work.

Note here that "ones" plays the role of a pronoun for "people". And you wouldn't ever say "fewer than the people". "Fewer" has to describe a number, so "fewer" in B is really parallel to "seven" at the beginning of sentence.

For the other choices:

A makes the same error as E, plus it also uses "less" instead of "fewer", which you'd need for a plural noun like "people".

B is correct; it's a logical, parallel comparison (seven people have been killed vs. fewer (people) have been killed)

C uses that word "which", which makes it a reflexive pronoun and therefore "is less" would have to modify "movies". That's not logical.

D makes the same mistake as A and D - "a number lower than the people" isn't a logical comparison, as it compares a number to people.

One important tip here - when you see pronouns and comparisons together ("that of"; "those of"; etc.) you'll almost always have to make a determination of which two things are logically being compared, so make that a focal point if you see that kind of setup.

My pick - B

Brian - This is a little new insight to see B and e this way. So taking time to integrate it and to see how this can be applied to other questions.

Another GMAtprep that plays on pronoun :

There are hopeful signs that we are shifting away from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels: more than ten times as much energy is generated through wind power now than it was in 1990.
A) generated through wind power now than it was
B) generated through wind power now as it was
C) generated through wind power now as was the case
D) now generated through wind power as it was
E) now generated through wind power then was the case


Could you suggest on what grounds presence of "it" is wrong in this question ? I am trying to see different questions and relate the together so i am able to apply the same. Currently, not fully confident.

GMATMadeEasy wrote:Brian - This is a little new insight to see B and e this way. So taking time to integrate it and to see how this can be applied to other questions.

Another GMAtprep that plays on pronoun :

There are hopeful signs that we are shifting away from our heavy reliance on fossil fuels: more than ten times as much energy is generated through wind power now than it was in 1990.
A) generated through wind power now than it was
B) generated through wind power now as it was
C) generated through wind power now as was the case
D) now generated through wind power as it was
E) now generated through wind power then was the case


Could you suggest on what grounds presence of "it" is wrong in this question ? I am trying to see different questions and relate the together so i am able to apply the same. Currently, not fully confident.

As much as 10 times of jute is manufactured now as was manufactured last year.
In this sentence i don't think we need IT. It simply compares the amount of jute manufactured at two particular time.

Coming to original question, We note the use of AS MUCH in non underlined part. SO we need another as in underlined part. Eliminate option A and E.

B) generated through wind power now as it was
C) generated through wind power now as was the case
D) now generated through wind power as it was

In option B and D, IT refers to what? the energy generated. If yes, then that means
AS was generated
and
AS it was generated
both are same. IN this case latter is wordy.

Also to maintain parallelism : as much X as Y
as much energy is generated through wind power now AS was the case in 1990.