Officials in Atlanta's public schools, as do many districts across the

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Officials in Atlanta's public schools, as do many districts across the United States, have eliminated recess in the elementary grades, calling it a waste of time that would be better spent on academics.

A) as do
B) as with
C) similar to
D) like those in
E) as they have in

(A) as do
(B) as with
(C) similar to
(D) like those in
(E) as they have in

ak_idc · Answer

officials....like...officials :wink:

Hang Tuah · Answer

Another D. :-D

A, B, C: Comparing "officials" with "districts". Wrong! E: "they" is ambiguous.

monirjewel · Answer

My answer is D. My reasoning..Officials in x, Like those(officials) in y. Pls clarify my reasoning. thanks

johng2016 · Answer

I chose D, but still wonder whether "those" is to refer to "Officials" or "public schools"
Anyone please help clarify!

chetan2u · Answer

Hi,
THOSE would refer to OFFICIALS here.. both grammatically and logically
if you look at public schools, it is not even an independent term but as a possessive noun of Atlanta..
so in a way it is -- Officials in public schools of Atlanta, like those in many districts..

shalinkotia · Answer

Though I too agree with D, but why B is incorrect. It is of the form "As" followed by a prepositional phrase.  chetan2u  please suggest.

rss433777 · Answer

"Like" should be used because we are comparing noun. hence D.

Divyadisha · Answer

Officials in Atlanta's public schools, like OFFICIALS in .....

Officials are compared and hence 'like' must be used.

D is the correct choice.

sayantanc2k · Answer

The preposition "with" is problematic. If it were "as in", then the sentence would be correct. To analyze this kind of comparison, it may be effective to consider the structure before omission of the repeated part from one of the two parallel elements of comparison. In this case the structure before omission is:

AS  officials in many districts across the United States have eliminated recess ,  Officials in Atlanta's public schools have eliminated recess .

The AS clause has been relocated to the beginning of the sentence for easy understanding. The blue highlighted clause and the green highlighted clause are compared and parallel.

Now omit the repeated part from the AS clause:
AS   officials  in many districts across the United States  have eliminated recess  ,  Officials in Atlanta's public schools have eliminated recess .

(Omission is acceptable only when the meaning is not obscured. It is important to retain the preposition "in" in order to clarify that the comparison is between officials in two places and not officials and place)

So the correct sentence could be:
Officials in Atlanta's public schools, as IN many districts across the United States, have eliminated recess in the elementary grades, calling it a waste of time that would be better spent on academics.

Now analyze same way using the preposition WITH:
AS   officials   with  many districts across the United States  have eliminated recess  ,  Officials in Atlanta's public schools have eliminated recess .

Now the parallelism is lost:  officials with many districts  is not parallel with  officials in Atlanta's public school . Moreover "with" is not the correct preposition to use.

Therefore option B is wrong.

sayantanc2k · Answer

D is the best option of the lot, but I see a slight problem in D. The sentence would be better if option D were as follows:

D) like those in schools of

Officials in Atlanta's public school  is not exactly parallel with  officials (those) in many districts across the United States .

mejia401 · Answer

Best answer is not often the perfect one.

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mbaprep2016 · Answer

i often get confused in questions, whether we are comparing actions of comparing nouns.
as i am , here in this sentence ;i thought we are comparing actions of the officials , with actions of other officials, and more over its gmat ,how can that comparison be simple so i choose A rather than D ,though i know D is simple and straight comparison.

sayantanc2k · Answer

Option A would be correct if it were as follows:
A) as do those in.

In absence of "those" (officials), the sentence implies that not officials, but many districts across the United States have eliminated recess.

Nightfury14 · Answer

Officials need to be compared with human being - Choice D) those solves the issue.

vanam52923 · Answer

Why is E wrong ?
Bcz E refers to same officials ,that i understand 
But my doubt is 
is this allowed compariosn:
Officials in Atlanta's public schools, as Officials have done in other districts ,have eliminated recess in the elementary grades, calling it a waste of time that would be better spent on academics.
can a clause (as Officials have done in other districts) come in between like this ?

is this proepr comparison as 2 clauses are being compared.
or we need this sturcture,

As Officials have done in other districts ,Officials in Atlanta's public schools have eliminated recess in the elementary grades, calling it a waste of time that would be better spent on academics.

Are both correct ?

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GMATNinja · Answer

There's nothing inherently wrong with putting "as officials have done..." in the middle, but it can create an unclear meaning. Often, when a sentence begins with NOUN PHRASE + AS, "as" will be used to mean "in the role of." For example: Tim, as an artist, rates somewhere between his Rottweiler and his 18-month-old son. The sentence is describing Tim's ability in his role as an artist. That's fine. But when I read your example, "Officials in Atlanta's public schools, as officials..." it sounds, at first, as though we're describing the officials in Atlanta in their role as officials in other districts! If you re-read it, can you figure out what the sentence means? Probably. But it's less obvious than "Officials in Atlanta's public schools, like those..." in which case it's crystal clear that we're comparing one set of officials to a different set. So instead of thinking, "When comparing two clauses, it's ALWAYS okay to split up the first clause and put the second one in the middle," think really hard about the specific context of the question and try to decide what works best. SC would be much easier if we could rigidly apply a black and white list of rules, but unfortunately, the test doesn't work that way.

I hope that helps!

GMATBuddha · Answer

Officials in Atlanta's public schools, as do many districts across the United States, have eliminated recess in the elementary grades, calling it a waste of time that would be better spent on academics.

A) as do
B) as with
C) similar to
D) like those in
E) as they have in

I don't understand what "do" refers to here.
 
changes the meaning.
 
officials are not similar to districts.
 
Correct comparison. Officials in Atlanta's schools are compared to Officials in many districts across US.
 
Officials in ... as officials have in many districts... -- wrong comparison.

harish555 · Answer

Officials in Atlanta's public schools, as do many districts across the United States, have eliminated recess in the elementary grades, calling it a waste of time that would be better spent on academics.

A) as do
B) as with
C) similar to
D) like those in
E) as they have in

(A) as do
Officials ….., as do many districts. Wrong comparison 
(B) as with 
Officials ….. , as with ….eliminate
(C) similar to
Officials ….similar to ….many districts. Eliminate
(D) like those in
Officials(noun)…..., like those ( noun)
(E) as they have in
Who are they …eliminate 
So, D must be OA

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