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D. Comparing actions of children to those of adults. Like is comparing people/things, as is used for comparing actions. Logical comparison needed, hence D :)
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Because young children do not organize their attention or perceptions systematically, like adults, they may notice and remember details that their elders ignore.

(A) like adults

(B) unlike an adult

(C) as adults

(D) as adults do

(E) as an adult

The key is "do not organize". We are comparing an action that both adults and young cha ildren perform
Therefore, we cannot use "like". Like is followed by a noun phrase; as is followed by a clause with a verb.

Eliminate (A) and (B)

Between (C), (D), (E)
(C) is incorrect because there is no verb present
(E) is incorrect because there is no verb present and it uses singular "an adult". You cannot compare plural "young children" to singular "an adult"

(D) is correct

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Official Explanation :

The sentence does not compare children to adults, instead compares what children don't do to what adults do.

Choices A, B, C, and E are faulty because they compare dissimilar entities, also the verb is part of the comparison, therefore, we need "as".

Choice D, is the best answer.
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Parallelism with 'do', like is only for nouns so use as, so D.
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Hey generis , GKomoku.
I am always doing wrong on these Like vs As questions even though I know that noun follows like and clause follows as.
Please clear my mind on this .
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Straight D as actions of children are compared with that of an adult
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Because young children do not organize their attention or perceptions systematically, like adults, they may notice and remember details that their elders ignore.

(A) like adults

(B) unlike an adult

(C) as adults

(D) as adults do

(E) as an adult

This is a comparison question of action of young children with the action of elders and like is used to compare nouns "as'' compare clauses. We need as here to compare the two actions. Only D gives perfect meaning.

The answer is D.
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