Protein in wheat and rice

I always like to start off my SC journey by identifying the main subject ...*unless* the sentence starts out with some sort of reference or comparison. The GMAT likes to take advantage of our ability to piece together the meaning of the sentence, even when there are logical problems with the items being compared. Noticing these situations leads to *immediate* eliminations!

Here we must ask ourselves "What has more protein than wheat does?", and demand that that be after the comma. That would eliminate A, C, and technically D right off the bat!

CoachT wrote:I always like to start off my SC journey by identifying the main subject ...*unless* the sentence starts out with some sort of reference or comparison. The GMAT likes to take advantage of our ability to piece together the meaning of the sentence, even when there are logical problems with the items being compared. Noticing these situations leads to *immediate* eliminations!

Here we must ask ourselves "What has more protein than wheat does?", and demand that that be after the comma. That would eliminate A, C, and technically D right off the bat!

This is especially useful when we see a fairly common SC structure like this: an opening modifier that is not underlined, followed by the main clause, which is underlined.

Clearly "in addition.." is a modifier here and it should describe or modify the noun after the comma. But here it implies that protein is having more protein than wheat does. this is wrong. It is the rice which has more protein than wheat does. so we need to have rice in the start of the underlined portion.

We are down to B,D and E.
if we see it clearly, in choice D, the noun is still protein with rice being an adjective.
so D is out.
In E, the meaning is not clear, is the higher quality of protein in rice being compared to the quality of wheat or the quality of protein in wheat.



after eliminating all the options we are left with option B

porry wrote:Clearly "in addition.." is a modifier here and it should describe or modify the noun after the comma. But here it implies that protein is having more protein than wheat does. this is wrong. It is the rice which has more protein than wheat does. so we need to have rice in the start of the underlined portion.

We are down to B,D and E.
if we see it clearly, in choice D, the noun is still protein with rice being an adjective.
so D is out.
In E, the meaning is not clear, is the higher quality of protein in rice being compared to the quality of wheat or the quality of protein in wheat.



after eliminating all the options we are left with option B

That was a good explanation.

Thanks

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