aditya8062 wrote:GMATGuruNY wrote:Answer choice A, rephrased:
In planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas, minority graduates are nearly four times more likely than are other graduates.
The conveyed meaning is incomplete:
What exactly are minority graduates more likely TO DO?
Eliminate A.
Good Day Guru
i have a little query regarding this .while rephrasing A you have made
"In planning to practice in socioeconomically deprived areas" this expression as a modifier to
"minority graduates" .however in actual A this expression is attached to
"other graduates"
can we do this ?
thanks and regards
Generally,
more X than Y serves to compare CLAUSES.
A
preposition + VERBing modifier that follows
more X than Y typically will serve as an ADVERB modifying the VERB in each clause.
In A,
in planning serves to indicate HOW both subjects ARE LIKELY.
Conveyed meaning:
Minority graduates ARE more LIKELY IN PLANNING than other graduates ARE LIKELY IN PLANNING.
SC22 in the OG13 offers an analogous sentence:
Plants are more efficient than fungi at acquiring carbon.
Here,
at acquiring serves as an adverb, indicating HOW both subjects ARE EFFICIENT:
Conveyed meaning:
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