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by pinktiger » Wed Jun 18, 2008 4:30 pm
Unlike the many winter greens that have tough leaves and thus require a lengthy cooking
time, those of escarole need little or no cooking.
A. many winter greens that have tough leaves and thus require a lengthy cooking
time, those of escarole need
B. many winter greens that have tough leaves and thus require a lengthy cooking
time, escarole needs
C. tough leaves of many winter greens and that they require for a lengthy cooking
time, escarole needs
D. tough leaves of many winter greens and the requirement that they have a lengthy
cooking time, those of escarole need
E. lengthy cooking time required by the many winter greens with tough leaves,
escarole needs
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by Ian Stewart » Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:08 pm
It's a comparison question: what is unlike what? Escarole is unlike 'many winter greens'. None of the answer choices makes the correct comparison besides B.
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by senthil » Wed Jun 18, 2008 7:09 pm
is answer B ?
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by pranavc » Thu Jun 19, 2008 2:33 am
I'm going with B.
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by lvincy » Thu Jun 19, 2008 11:09 am
I will also vote for B
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by pinktiger » Thu Jun 19, 2008 12:10 pm
thanks guys...Yes answer is B
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by annakool1009 » Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:56 am
IMO A.

It is the leaves of Winter Green that require lengthy cooking time.
Similary the leaves of Escarole need a lot of time to cook.

In B, it implies that it implies tht the plant Escarole is being cooked !!!
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by JerryV » Thu Sep 29, 2011 6:25 am
Even I think the answer should be A, we are comparing leaves of winter greens with leaves of escarole, not leaves of winter green with escarole.

Can someone explain?
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by sl750 » Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:18 am
JerryV wrote:Even I think the answer should be A, we are comparing leaves of winter greens with leaves of escarole, not leaves of winter green with escarole.

Can someone explain?
No, we are comparing many winter greens that have tough leaves with escarole

In A, the comparison is between many winter greens and the leaves of escarole. You can also eliminate A for a verb issue. Escarole is singular and so we should use the singular verb needs
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by JerryV » Thu Sep 29, 2011 8:53 pm
sl750 wrote:
JerryV wrote:Even I think the answer should be A, we are comparing leaves of winter greens with leaves of escarole, not leaves of winter green with escarole.

Can someone explain?
No, we are comparing many winter greens that have tough leaves with escarole

In A, the comparison is between many winter greens and the leaves of escarole. You can also eliminate A for a verb issue. Escarole is singular and so we should use the singular verb needs

sl750,
I'm still not convinced.

We are not cooking winter greens, we are cooking the leaves of winter greens.

In the sentence, the closest noun to 'those' is 'tough leaves', so we are comparing the leaves of winter greens with those of escarole.
Also, 'need' should be plural as we are talking about the leaves of escarole.

Isn't anyone seeing this the way I see it? Or I'm I looking at it in a completely wrong way?
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by gunjan1208 » Thu Sep 29, 2011 9:08 pm
Pink tiger,

Please underline the protion in discussion. This saves time for many people.
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by sl750 » Fri Sep 30, 2011 12:13 pm
JerryV wrote:
sl750 wrote:
JerryV wrote:Even I think the answer should be A, we are comparing leaves of winter greens with leaves of escarole, not leaves of winter green with escarole.

Can someone explain?
No, we are comparing many winter greens that have tough leaves with escarole

In A, the comparison is between many winter greens and the leaves of escarole. You can also eliminate A for a verb issue. Escarole is singular and so we should use the singular verb needs

sl750,
I'm still not convinced.

We are not cooking winter greens, we are cooking the leaves of winter greens.

In the sentence, the closest noun to 'those' is 'tough leaves', so we are comparing the leaves of winter greens with those of escarole.
Also, 'need' should be plural as we are talking about the leaves of escarole.

Isn't anyone seeing this the way I see it? Or I'm I looking at it in a completely wrong way?

Tough leaves is an adjective. The plural pronoun those here refers to the leaves of escarole and not of winter greens'
In choice A, winter green that has tough leaves is being compared with the leaves of escarole. The comparison is not equal so to speak
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by GmatKiss » Sat Oct 01, 2011 12:57 am
OA is B
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by sahilchaudhary » Fri Sep 13, 2013 2:15 am
I would go with B.
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