Sentence Correction

More than 17 percent of world wine is produced in Italy, while in Spain it is a little over 14 percent.

(A) while in Spain it is a little over 14 percent
(B) compared to Spain, where it is a little over 14 percent
(C) whereas in Spain wine production accounts for a little over 14% of world figures
(D) and in Spain wine production is a little over 14 percent
(E) compared with the wine production in Spain, where it is a little over 14 percent.

Experts please confirm my reasoning
IMO C,
"it" does not have any antecedent - A,B,E out
"and" is not appropriate to show contrast + we don't know 14% of <WHAT>. we cannot assume "14 of world wine" because of LACK of parallelism - D out

I think that this should say "More than 17% of the worlds' wine production"

This is very like the question on nuclear power in France from the Official Guide. Here are some links to discussions of that question.

https://www.beatthegmat.com/sc-nuclear-p ... 09100.html

https://www.beatthegmat.com/og-12-questi ... 14139.html


As you can see parallelism and clarity are really the issues here. It is clear in C that we are talking about wine produced in Spain that is 14% of all the wine in the world.

Hope that official question helps!

@David so this isn't an official question ?

I would say it is based on an official question and designed to test the same thing as the official question that I have referenced above.

It can be useful to see the same concept tested in different contexts so that you are ready to recognize the underlying issues.