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Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults is possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.

(A) Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults is

(B) Children's tendency to be more susceptible than is the case with adults to bronchitis and asthma is

(C) Children tend toward being more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults, which is

(D) Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than are adults, are so

(E) Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma,

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Originally posted by sivasanjeev on 25 Jan 2014, 23:48.
Last edited by BillyZ on 14 Sep 2018, 23:39, edited 5 times in total.
Fixed the typo.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   27 Jan 2014, 20:28
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E cannot be the choice per se, because a subject cannot have two verbs. There are two verbs in E namely -- tend and is -- Is there any problem in transcription and underlining? The verb –is - should be part of the underlining I suppose.

A. Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults is ---Wrong comparison- comparing children’s tendency with adults

B. Children's tendency to be more susceptible than is the case with adults to bronchitis and asthma is ---- wrong comparison; we are comparing Tendency with a status, namely how the tendency is with adults

C. Children tend toward being more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults, which is--- ‘which’ touch rule foul

D. Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than are adults, are so --- The expression –Children, who tend to be— may restrict the meaning to only those who tend to be so and not to the entire children

E. Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma --- precise and correct choice.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   22 Feb 2015, 18:09
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sivasanjeev wrote:
Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults is possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.

A. Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults
B. Children's tendency to be more susceptible than is the case with adults to bronchitis and asthma is
C. Children tend toward being more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults, which is
D. Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than are adults, are so
E. Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma



Answer cannot be E if 'is' is not underlined. E would read:

Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma is possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.

If you use 'is' (as the verb) in the construction, you'll need to refer to the children's tendency (and not use tend as a verb) to be more susceptible. If the question stem is correct, the only correct answer is A. If is was underlined, E would be perfect:

Children tend (verb) to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2014, 11:32
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I agree with others that the underlining should extend to include "is".

A. Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults Wrong Structure
B. Children's tendency to be more susceptible than is the case with adults to bronchitis and asthma is Wordy/Wrong
C. Children tend toward being more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults, which is Wordy/Wrong
D. Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than are adults, are so Wordy/Wrong
E. Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma Correct

OE is (E).
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   27 Jul 2016, 15:07
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Why is not there a comma separating the main clause from the subordinating clause?
Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.
A comma after "Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma" is incorrect, right?

I play basketball because I love it.
Because I love it, I play basketball.
I am happy although I got the answer wrong.
Although I got the answer wrong, I am happy.

All are correct right?


1. If the dependent clause comes before the independent clause, then a comma in between is mandatory.

2. If the dependent clause comes after the independent clause, then a comma in between may or may not be required. Following are some thumb rules:

2.1.In general, a comma is not required.
2.2. Exception: for contrast clauses (though, although, whereas, while), a comma is required.
2.3. "Because" with a negative verb: Comma may or may not be required depending on the meaning.
I did not do my homework because I was tired.
There can be two meanings for the above:
meaning 1: I did not do my home work - the reason was that I was tired. (non-essential clause- use comma)
meaning 2: I did not do my homework - the reason was not that I was tired, the reason was something else. (essential clause, do not use comma)

Given the above thumb rules following are the reasons that your sentences are right or wrong:

sentence 1: right - rule: 2.1
sentence 2,4 - right: rule 1
sentence 3 - wrong: rule 2.2
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   28 Jan 2015, 00:34
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Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults is possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.

A. Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults
B. Children's tendency to be more susceptible than is the case with adults to bronchitis and asthma is
C. Children tend toward being more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults, which is
D. Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than are adults, are so
E. Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma


There is a problem with the underlined part!!
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   23 Feb 2015, 21:56
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Phew I'm glad I'm not the only one who saw the OA was E and was like, "what"?

If the "is" is also underlined, then the correct OA is clearly E.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   25 Feb 2015, 23:39
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Choice D caught my attention. In it's current form, I believe D is not correct because there is no parallel structure on the left hand side of the comparison. So, while we have "are adults", there is nothing on the left hand side to compare it with. We can obviously not say: "than are adults (tend to be)".

However, if D was modified as:

Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults do, are so

In that case, would D have been correct? The reason is that I think we can interpret the above sentence as:

Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults tend to be, are so because..

There could still be an issue with what "so" means, but I am thinking that "are so" is an acceptable structure.

Any thoughts?
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   01 Mar 2015, 22:21
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Can an expert please reply to my above query.


Yes, the structure could technically be valid. However, in this context, D changes the meaning. It talks about certain children vs. the original sentence implying about the tendency of children as a group.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   27 Nov 2016, 10:41
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Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults is possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.

A. Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults
B. Children's tendency to be more susceptible than is the case with adults to bronchitis and asthma is
C. Children tend toward being more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults, which is
D. Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than are adults, are so
E. Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma


Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma is possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.

Correct answer must be (E) for the highlighted errors in other options...

RichaChampion wrote:
I think that the question is not underlined correctly. Can someone please correct the question and underline it correctly.


Done that, Thanks for pointing out...
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   22 Nov 2020, 09:05
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Request the experts to help me understand if the comma at the end of the answer choice E is correct?

If that is so my analysis says that I am joining two sentences using "Possibly" - will that be correct?

Hi ShubhamRastogi, two sentences are not being joined by possibly.

The construct is:

i) Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma- Independent clause

ii) because children retain 35 percent more....: Dependent clause, acting as an adverbial clause (adverbial, since this clause answers the question why? - Why do children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis & asthma)

The word possibly is again an adverb, just modifying the above adverbial clause (adverbs can modify adverbs as well:)).

You can watch our video on Independent and Dependent Clauses.

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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   14 Aug 2022, 19:00
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need help to understand parallel structure in comparison

(E) Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma,

X more susceptible than Y

X: children (noun) tend ( verb)

Y: adults ( if i assume verb is implied, it will be ' than adults tend to be to P&Q''



Do you understand that all three of these comparison sentences are correctly written?:
I read more than my brother does.
I usually read more than my brother does.
I tend to read more than my brother does.

The easiest way to process "tend to VERB" is to treat it like "usually VERB", because you can substitute one of those two for the other in general.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   29 Jan 2014, 10:56
Yes, definitely "is" needs to be a part of the underlined portion and also, "is" needs to be correspondingly added to option A. Otherwise, B and C would be totally irrelevant (because we would have "is is" kind of structure).
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   04 May 2014, 07:26
sivasanjeev wrote:
Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults is possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.

A. Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults
B. Children's tendency to be more susceptible than is the case with adults to bronchitis and asthma is
C. Children tend toward being more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults, which is
D. Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than are adults, are so
E. Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma



OE is E.
Please follow the forum rules before posting any question. "is" in the sentence needs to be underlined as well.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   01 Mar 2015, 07:21
Can an expert please reply to my above query.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   06 Mar 2015, 06:34
aviram wrote:
Yes, the structure could technically be valid. However, in this context, D changes the meaning. It talks about certain children vs. the original sentence implying about the tendency of children as a group.

Hello aviram, I am not very sure if that would be the meaning, because there is a comma after "children", hence making "who" as non-restrictive.

If there had been no comma after "children", then perhaps what you say would have been more applicable. What do you think?
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   25 Mar 2015, 21:36
"is" needs t be the part of the question. That's why its creating confusion.
Else the answer is simple. " E"
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   26 Mar 2015, 02:43
Indeed, this is creating a lot of confusion. "is" should be in the underlined part. Can moderators edit the original sentence here.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   13 Apr 2015, 21:07
sivasanjeev wrote:
Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults is possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.

A. Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults
B. Children's tendency to be more susceptible than is the case with adults to bronchitis and asthma is
C. Children tend toward being more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults, which is
D. Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than are adults, are so
E. Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma


this question is old and should not be studied anymore. focus, instead, on the new questions in og and gmatprep.

"is because..." is incorrect . because clause can not be used after to be. this error gmat tests on many questions in og book . however, this phrase appear here in non underlined part.
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Re: Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma [#permalink] New post   03 Jun 2015, 22:56
sivasanjeev wrote:
Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults is possibly because, according to recent research, children retain 35 percent more of inhaled airborne particles on the surface of their lungs than adults do.

A. Children's tendency to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults
B. Children's tendency to be more susceptible than is the case with adults to bronchitis and asthma is
C. Children tend toward being more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than adults, which is
D. Children, who tend to be more susceptible to bronchitis and asthma than are adults, are so
E. Children tend to be more susceptible than adults to bronchitis and asthma



"IS" IS SUPPOSED TO BE A PART OF THE UNDERLINED SENTENCE I GUESS, WOULDN'T HAVE MADE THE ERROR IF THE QUESTION WOULD HAVE BEEN PROPERLY PRESENTED.
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