rocky620 wrote:
Hi Experts, the confusion , Between A & C, in this question still persists.
Kindly help.
Hello,
rocky620. I cast my vote for (C). The parallelism is indeed off in (A):
trying does
not carry over to the second item as an understood element. Comparisons on the GMAT™ are tightly governed. Furthermore, there is an inherent problem in saying that two separate actions, which use separate verbs in
to learn and
to tinker, are
the same.
Like is a noun-to-noun comparison marker:
the same is not. Consider the following sentences:
1) To say that six of something is
the same as half a dozen is accurate.
2) To play poker is
the same as to play chess.
3) Playing poker is
like playing chess.
In sentence 2, I can draw comparisons between poker and chess as games, but I cannot reasonably call them the same. In the sentence at hand, neither can I reasonably say that learning programming basics and tinkering with a car are
the same. They are quite different activities, whatever other similarities they may share.
Finally, what does the stilted
when one is a teenager achieve in the way of clarity that
as a teenager lacks? This dubious split and the other issues I have pointed out make (A) untenable. My guess is that someone wanted to be clever and design what he or she thought a 700-level GMAT™ question would look like.
If I encounter an
official question that incorporates some of the key elements I have argued against above in a
correct answer choice, particularly over other options that I have here considered more justifiable, I will be sure to come back and publicly revise my views.
- Andrew
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