KungFuGmat wrote:
@imyuva- if I may be allowed to quote Veritas prep ... on sentence correction some questions are above our pay grade. The instructor referred this to idiomatic use. It's great to know a lot of idioms but if you look closely in the sentence we can get to correct answer without the idiom. Here is how:
A compares literature with Greeks--- out
Choice C and D have same mistake. Out
Now between B & D...
Both correctly compare literature to literature. But B has SV error. Literature is singular. In B it is incorrectly used as are.
D is hence correct.
Now I don't know the compared to vs compared with rule. And I am sure, the test writers want us to focus on this while a simple way exists to answer the question.
That's my two cents.
@Gmatninja, @gmatninja2, @broall, @mikemcgarry can you help with the compared to and compared with rule. Thanks in advance
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GMAT Club Forum mobile app"Compared to" is used to highlight similarity:
This place can be compared to heaven... highlighting similarity.
"Compared with" is used to highlight difference:
I am always compared with my brother.... highlighting difference.
When "compared to/with" is used as a modifier, the objective generally is to highlight difference and hence technically the correct usage would be "compared with".
Compared with a horse, a donkey is slow.... highlighting difference.
Nonetheless GMAT ignores this difference - both usages would be considered correct in GMAT.