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Among other things, chronic inflammation in the digestive tract – particularly the small intestine - may interfere with how the body uses the calories in food, storing more of them as fat rather than to burn them for energy.


A. them as fat rather than to burn them

B. them as fat rather than burn them

C. it as fat rather than burning them

D. it as fat rather than burning it

E. them as fat rather then burning it
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Could you please confirm that B should be the answer here?
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Among other things, chronic inflammation in the digestive tract – particularly the small intestine - may interfere with how the body uses the calories in food, storing more of them as fat rather than to burn them for energy.


A. them as fat rather than to burn them

B. them as fat rather than burn them

C. it as fat rather than burning them

D. it as fat rather than burning it

E. them as fat rather then burning it

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Could you please confirm that B should be the answer here?
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The OA is D. OE is here: https://gmatclub.com/forum/among-other- ... l#p2075300
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Among other things, chronic inflammation in the digestive tract part 02 Jul 2018, 03:44
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Should we expect such questions on real GMAT where we have to choose parallelism over pronouns or any such preference, such that it is make or break point ?
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I have never heard that our body burns the food for energy.
Rather it is commonly stated that our body burns calories present in the food for energy...this is non sensical ...I don't think it's from any of the official sources

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The pronoun can refer to food too. That's the confusion.
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It is really difficult to decide the correct alternatives for such questions. How do we approach such questions in general?
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Anaswering this though I got it wrong :)

caries cannot be stored as fat but food is stored as fat. based on this ,we need a singular. A,B and E can be eliminated
In C, food is used as singular once and plular in the same sentence. This is not allowed, so eliminate C

D is the right answer.

Among other things, chronic inflammation in the digestive tract – particularly the small intestine - may interfere with how the body uses the calories in food, storing more of them as fat rather than to burn them for energy.


(A) them as fat rather than to burn them

(B) them as fat rather than burn them

(C) it as fat rather than burning them

(D) it as fat rather than burning it

(E) them as fat rather then burning it
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In the midst of the discussion of use of "it" or "them", I think that we are overlooking a glaring issue in each and every option - use of "more" in conjunction with "rather than". This combination is definitely wrong in GMAT.
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Among other things, chronic inflammation in the digestive tract – particularly the small intestine - may interfere with how the body uses the calories in food, storing more of them as fat rather than to burn them for energy.


A. them as fat rather than to burn them

B. them as fat rather than burn them

C. it as fat rather than burning them

D. it as fat rather than burning it

E. them as fat rather then burning it

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Usually, when you find pronoun decision points in a sentence correction problem, you should start by assessing those. However, in this problem that decision point is quite tricky! When assessing “it” versus “them,” you might think that the pronoun should be plural, as it seems to be referring to calories. But if it is singular, it could also refer to food and this too is logical (in fact you don’t really “store calories as fat” but you do “store food as fat”). Since both seem reasonable, look for other decision points. One important consideration is that you cannot mix and match the pronouns – either both need to be singular or both need to be plural. That allows you to definitely eliminate (C) and (E) as they incorrectly mix and match a singular and plural pronoun. The other critical decision point between (A), (B), and (D) is the “burning” versus “to burn” or “burn.” Checking parallelism, you see that this expression needs to be: “STORING more of it as fat rather than BURNING it for energy.” Comparisons such as this require strict parallelism and (A) and (B) both clearly violate that. While you might be a bit perplexed by the singular pronoun choice in (D), it is the only one that avoids concrete errors of agreement and parallelism. The correct answer is (D).
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@Bunuel can you please explain the phrase in fact you don’t really “store calories as fat” but you do “store food as fat”. Thanks
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Same question as Sahil. After googling if body store food as fat or calories as fat this is what came up-
“ The more calories a food has, the more energy it can provide to your body. When you eat more calories than you need, your body stores the extra calories as body fat. Even a fat-free food can have a lot of calories. Excess calories in any form can be stored as body fat.”

Seems like food is converted to calories which is being saved as far e

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Same question as Sahil. After googling if body store food as fat or calories as fat this is what came up-
“ The more calories a food has, the more energy it can provide to your body. When you eat more calories than you need, your body stores the extra calories as body fat. Even a fat-free food can have a lot of calories. Excess calories in any form can be stored as body fat.”

Seems like food is converted to calories which is being saved as far e

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Hello TheWrongGrammer,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, since calorie is a measure of energy, saying the food is stored as fat is a more literal statement than saying that the calories themselves are stored as fat.

Thus, since the GMAT prefers the literal interpretation of SC sentences, the former usage is superior.

We hope this helps.
All the best!
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