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[arorag]

Below are two question because they are having same concept and I am confuse.....
1. To meet the rising marketing demand for fish and seafood, suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment by nearly half and raising them on special diets.
A. their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment
B. their natural growth rate, their feed allotment cut
C. growing them naturally, cutting their feed allotment
D. they grow naturally, cutting their feed allotment
E. they grow naturally, with their feed allotment cut



2. The Environmental Protection Agency frequently puts mandatory controls on toxic substances that present as little risk as one in a million chances to cause cancer.
A. as little risk as one in a million chances to cause
B. as little risk as one chance in a million of causing
C. as little risk as one chance in a million that it will cause
D. a risk as little as one chance in a million for causing
E. a risk as little as one chance in a million for it to cause



I am looking for the correct comparison format of AS AS
[spoiler]Why choice D is wrong in 2 but choice D is right in 1

When we say As X AS Y here we are comparing X and Y then why as fast as is correct and as little as is wrong
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[crackthetest]

Please post OA, here is what I think:

1. To meet the rising marketing demand for fish and seafood, suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment by nearly half and raising them on special diets.
A. their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment -- their doesn't have a proper reference.
B. their natural growth rate, their feed allotment cut -- their doesn't have a proper reference.
C. growing them naturally, cutting their feed allotment -- improper construction
D. they grow naturally, cutting their feed allotment -- correct with parallelism
E. they grow naturally, with their feed allotment cut -- not correct, no parallelism


2. The Environmental Protection Agency frequently puts mandatory controls on toxic substances that present as little risk as one in a million chances to cause cancer.

This is more to do with idioms I guess:

A. as little risk as one in a million chances to cause -- correct, rest are not idiomatic or has sentence construction flaws.
B. as little risk as one chance in a million of causing
C. as little risk as one chance in a million that it will cause
D. a risk as little as one chance in a million for causing
E. a risk as little as one chance in a million for it to cause

[lunarpower]

Please post OA, here is what I think:

1. To meet the rising marketing demand for fish and seafood, suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment by nearly half and raising them on special diets.
A. their natural growth rate, cutting their feed allotment -- their doesn't have a proper reference.
B. their natural growth rate, their feed allotment cut -- their doesn't have a proper reference.
C. growing them naturally, cutting their feed allotment -- improper construction
D. they grow naturally, cutting their feed allotment -- correct with parallelism
E. they grow naturally, with their feed allotment cut -- not correct, no parallelism

(a) and (b) also contain an improper comparison. a RATE can't be "fast"; that's a redundant construction.
GROWTH can be fast.
but
a growth RATE must be high. there's no such thing as a "fast rate".

same thing for speeds -- there's no such thing is a "fast speed". you can have fast travel, or a high speed, but not a "fast speed".

i'm not sure what you meant by "improper construction" in (c), but the use of "growing" (rather than "they grow...") in that choice suggests that the subject of "growing them naturally" is "suppliers" -- i.e., the suppliers are somehow "growing them (the fish) naturally". that doesn't make any sense.

otherwise, good.

2. The Environmental Protection Agency frequently puts mandatory controls on toxic substances that present as little risk as one in a million chances to cause cancer.

This is more to do with idioms I guess:

A. as little risk as one in a million chances to cause -- correct, rest are not idiomatic or has sentence construction flaws.
B. as little risk as one chance in a million of causing
C. as little risk as one chance in a million that it will cause
D. a risk as little as one chance in a million for causing
E. a risk as little as one chance in a million for it to cause

correct -- idioms are an issue.

i don't generally cross-post between forums, but i wrote a LOT about this problem on the following thread:
https://www.manhattangmat.com/forums/the ... t2469.html

that thread should answer the majority of questions that can be posed about this problem.