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Sir, I've a query on the highlighted part.
I think, the researchers did not report about (just) mice, directly; they report the whole clause, which starts with mice has (has must be have) the remarkable....
Here are two example:
Like teachers, students report (to he principal) that the neighbor destroyed the environment of school premise.
--> This one make sense.
Like teachers, students report (to he principal) that the dais has been stolen by the local thief.
--> This one is something like your highlighted part. In this ^^ example, "students" don't report about the "the dais"; they report about the whole clause, which is "the dais has been stolen by the local thief".
Am i missing anything, here?
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You are missing that I was simply summarizing.
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Did you notice another important thing in this SC, sir?
Here it is-->
Like men and women, researchers report that ...........
^^ The "researchers" could be under the common group of "men and women". So, do you think that "men and women" and "researchers" are two separate identity? I mean: is it reasonable to compare "researchers" with "men and women"?

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Interesting. Of course that comparison does not make sense.
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Okay, i get it sir. Thanks for the clarification.
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Sir, I've a query on the highlighted part.
I think, the researchers did not report about (just) mice, directly; they report the whole clause, which starts with mice has (has must be have) the remarkable....
Here are two example:
Like teachers, students report (to he principal) that the neighbor destroyed the environment of school premise.
--> This one make sense.
Like teachers, students report (to he principal) that the dais has been stolen by the local thief.
--> This one is something like your highlighted part. In this ^^ example, "students" don't report about the "the dais"; they report about the whole clause, which is "the dais has been stolen by the local thief".
Am i missing anything, here?
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You are missing that I was simply summarizing.
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is their any other error in this sentence as I got confused with C and D
and being a non native speaker some times it does not come naturally to be error like this one
ability to and ability of..
therefore got between do and can in C and D.

please explain how to get away with idioms or is their is any other error I can work on this question.
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is their any other error in this sentence as I got confused with C and D
and being a non native speaker some times it does not come naturally to be error like this one
ability to and ability of..
therefore got between do and can in C and D.

please explain how to get away with idioms or is their is any other error I can work on this question.
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Hi 2AND,

I understand how you feel. I too don't like questions that test idioms. However, there are some structures that are more commonly tested than others, and this is one of them. We must be able to take a call on ability of + ing vs. ability to + (plain form of the verb).
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In D Researchers report blah blah blah , as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.

here reasearchers reporting is compared with humans & animals reporting. how can it be right?

where is m reasoning wrong ??
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In D Researchers report blah blah blah , as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.

here reasearchers reporting is compared with humans & animals reporting. how can it be right?

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Hi Abhishek

You seem to have misread option (D). It nowhere talks about humans or animals "reporting".

Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperatures to a narrow range, as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.

The above sentence means that as per researchers' reports, lotus can keep its temperatures to a narrow range. Humans and other warm blooded animals also possess this ability to keep their temperatures to a narrow range. Hence, lotuses are being compared with humans and other warm blooded animals, in their specific ability to keep their temperatures within a narrow range. Thus, this comparison is perfectly correct.

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In D Researchers report blah blah blah , as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.

here reasearchers reporting is compared with humans & animals reporting. how can it be right?

where is m reasoning wrong ??

Hi Abhishek

You seem to have misread option (D). It nowhere talks about humans or animals "reporting".

Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperatures to a narrow range, as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.

The above sentence means that as per researchers' reports, lotus can keep its temperatures to a narrow range. Humans and other warm blooded animals also possess this ability to keep their temperatures to a narrow range. Hence, lotuses are being compared with humans and other warm blooded animals, in their specific ability to keep their temperatures within a narrow range. Thus, this comparison is perfectly correct.

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Researchers play a game, as do I. here we can say playing of Researchers is compared with mine. in same way "researchers reporting is compared with humans & animals reporting". please explain where is my reasoning wrong ??
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lotus has the remarkable ability...as do humans....
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The question that I faced in mba.com has a different option D.

Researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperature within a narrow range, as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.

Bunuel : Can I provide screenshot of mba.com official practice questions or against the rule?

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The question that I faced in mba.com has a different option D.

Researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperature within a narrow range, as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.

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That could be other version of the question. You can post the screenshot if you want.
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Like in (D), "lotus" followed by the verb "has" is being compared to "do", a verb, followed by the noun "humans and warm blooded animals. Switch in the form of both entities of which comes first. Can we really switch them? Although (D) is the best choice.
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Hello GMATNinja, egmat

Like humans and other warm-blooded animals, researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperatures in a narrow range.

A. Like humans and other warm-blooded animals, researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperatures in a narrow range.
misplaced modifier --> 'Like humans and other warm-blooded animals' should modify lotus
B. Researchers report that within a narrow range, the lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperature like humans and other warm-blooded animals do.
Incorrect comparison between 'Humans and other warm-blooded animals' and 'ability of lotus'
C. Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperatures to a narrow range, as humans and other warm-blooded animals can.
Usage of 'can' at the end of the sentence, 'can' is not a verb and should rather be replaced by 'do' which is typically used for duplicating verb
D. Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperatures to a narrow range, as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.
Correct usage of 'do' which acts as verb for 'humans and other warm-blooded animals'
E. As humans and other warm-blooded animals can, researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperature in a narrow range.
misplaced modifier --> 'Like humans and other warm-blooded animals' should modify lotus
Usage of 'can' at the end of the sentence, 'can' is not a verb and should rather be replaced by 'do' which is typically used for duplicating verb

Please let me know if any of my analysis is incorrect.

Furthermore, a generic question:
Even if I don't know the subtleties of idom usage, can I still score decent in SC?

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Hello GMATNinja, egmat

Like humans and other warm-blooded animals, researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperatures in a narrow range.

A. Like humans and other warm-blooded animals, researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperatures in a narrow range.
misplaced modifier --> 'Like humans and other warm-blooded animals' should modify lotus
B. Researchers report that within a narrow range, the lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperature like humans and other warm-blooded animals do.
Incorrect comparison between 'Humans and other warm-blooded animals' and 'ability of lotus'
C. Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperatures to a narrow range, as humans and other warm-blooded animals can.
Usage of 'can' at the end of the sentence, 'can' is not a verb and should rather be replaced by 'do' which is typically used for duplicating verb
D. Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperatures to a narrow range, as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.
Correct usage of 'do' which acts as verb for 'humans and other warm-blooded animals'
E. As humans and other warm-blooded animals can, researchers report that the lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperature in a narrow range.
misplaced modifier --> 'Like humans and other warm-blooded animals' should modify lotus
Usage of 'can' at the end of the sentence, 'can' is not a verb and should rather be replaced by 'do' which is typically used for duplicating verb

Please let me know if any of my analysis is incorrect.

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Even if I don't know the subtleties of idom usage, can I still score decent in SC?

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We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, your analysis is broadly correct here.

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This incidentally reminded me that "ability to" is listed as the first idiom in the (very limited but relevant) idiom list presented in our book EducationAisle Sentence Correction Nirvana .

If you or someone is interested, PM me your email-id; I can mail the idioms section.
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I have a question regarding the ellipsis of this question .... I think the ellipsis of (C) and (D) are both wrong and I have read your book and how you covered ellipsis. For ellipsis the parts deducted need to be presented on the preceding clause "as is".

C. Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperatures to a narrow range, as humans and other warm-blooded animals can (keep their temperatures to a narrow range)

"Keep" and "their" not stated "as is" - so wrong use of ellipsis, no?

D. Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperatures to a narrow range, as do humans and other warm-blooded animals.

D means - Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperatures to a narrow range, as humans and other warm-blooded animals do = (keep their temperatures to a narrow range)

"their" not stated "as is" - so wrong use of ellipsis, no?

I do not want to take out an option just because of idioms, what other error is there in C? GMATNinja can you please help?
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The idiom ABILITY TO is probably one of the easiest ways to choose D over C. Another thing you can try, is cut out the second part of the C.

Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability of keeping its temperatures to a narrow range, as humans can.
Researchers report that lotus has the remarkable ability to keep its temperatures to a narrow range, as do humans.
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I have a question regarding the ellipsis of this question .... I think the ellipsis of (C) and (D) are both wrong and I have read your book
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Could you perhaps PM me the part of the book where the need for the preceding clause to be "as is" is mentioned?

Generally, if there is a "verb tense" change after the comparison operator, we need to explicitly mention the verb after the comparison operator, with the correct tense.

In other cases, there is no strict requirement for every word to be present "as is". For example, following would be correct:

Mike runs faster than his siblings.

Notice that the implied verb (after "his siblings") is "run", while the actual verb present in the sentence is "runs". But this is not a problem.
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