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Protein in wheat and rice

by eaakbari » Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:15 am
19. In addition to having more protein -than wheat does, the protein in rice is higher quality than that in wheat,
with more of the amino acids essential to the human diet.
(A) the protein in rice is higher quality than that in
(B) rice has protein of higher quality than that in
(C) the protein in rice is higher in quality than it is in
(D) rice protein is higher in quality than it is in
(E) rice has a protein higher in quality than

I cannot understand why A is wrong

OA = B
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by CoachT » Fri Nov 30, 2012 8:55 am
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!
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Fri Nov 30, 2012 3:06 pm
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.
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by porry » Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:39 am
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
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by eaakbari » Sun Dec 02, 2012 11:49 am
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.

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