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Mary buys cookies made with SugarFree, an artificial sweetener , which tastes as sweet as the corn syrup that her brother loves but which contains fewer calories than does an equivalent amount of corn syrup .
Is " does" required in the later part of the sentence? Normally, verb is used to resolve ambiguity . I am not seeing any ambiguity here.
an artificial sweetener contains fewer calories than (does) an equivalent amount of corn syrup .
If there is an ambiguity , please explain
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1) Mary buys cookies made with SugarFree ,an artificial sweetener , which tastes as sweet as the corn syrup that her brother loves but which contains fewer calories than does an equivalent amount of corn syrup .
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Now without does: Sugar Free contains fewer calories than an equivalent amount of corn syrup. -> seems Sugar free contains less calories than X . I mean sugar free contains both X and Calories.
So Sugar Free contains fewer calories than does an equivalent amount of corn syrup. Also as we are comparing subjects inverted construction is used.
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