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Agriculture scientists studying the Macaca Egg plants in French Polynesia reported that Brinjals of a newly discovered species, yet to be named, is at least two times the size of those taken in the harvests of the neighbouring New Zealand.
A) is at least two times the size of those taken in the harvests of B) is at least two times those harvested by C) are at least twice the size of the brinjals harvested by D) are at least twice what the banana harvests of E) is at least twice as large compared to those brinjals harvested by
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Originally posted by MBA20 on 18 Apr 2019, 10:00.
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Agriculture scientists studying the Macaca Egg plants in French Polynesia reported that Brinjals of a newly discovered species, yet to be named, is at least two times the size of those taken in the harvests of the neighbouring New Zealand.
A) is at least two times the size of those taken in the harvests of -- brinjals is plural -- taken in the harvests of is not idiomatic and not as concise as "brinjals harvested by"
B) is at least two times those harvested by -- brinjals is plural -- Idiom of comparison is wrong Correct: Xs are at least twice the size of [the Ys] Wrong: Xs [are] at least two times [the Ys] The plants are twice the size of the other plants. The plants are not two times (multiplication) the other plants.
C) are at least twice the size of the brinjals harvested by
D) are at least twice what the banana [brinjal?] harvests of [New Zealand] ARE -- Not correct: Xs are at least twice what the Ys -- The verb "are" is missing in the comparison -- "what" has no antecedent. The sentence does not mention size. The option must mention size.
E) is at least twice as large compared to those brinjals harvested by -- brinjals is a plural word -- when we use comparison words "as ____ as," we do not use "compared" in the sentence. That usage is redundant.
OA is not available. However, I think the ans is E.
MBA20 , please list your source a few lines below option E. Is the word "Brinjals" capitalized? In the prompt it is capitalized but not in the options. In (D) do you mean "brinjals"? "brinjal"?
Strip this sentence to make finding the subject easier. The subject is brinjals. (I had never heard of this word, but after I stripped the sentence, the subject was clear.)
Original sentence in prompt: Agriculture scientists studying the Macaca Egg plants in French Polynesia reported that Brinjals of a newly discovered species, yet to be named, is at least two times the size of those taken in the harvests of the neighbouring New Zealand.
Original sentence, strip markup: Agriculture scientists studying the Macaca Egg plants in French Polynesia reported that Brinjals of a newly discovered species, yet to be named,is at least two times the size of [brinjals harvested in] taken in the harvests of the neighbouring New Zealand.
Result of stripped sentence in the prompt: Scientists reported that brinjals in Polynesia . . . [is/are] at least two times the size of [brinjals harvested in] New Zealand.
The subject is brinjals. -- "of a newly discovered species" is a prepositional phrase and species is a direct object. -- Objects of a preposition are never the subject of a sentence. -- "yet to be named" modifies species -- Species are not twice the size of anything and are not harvested. -- brinjals—which I now gather are plants or fruits or vegetables— are harvested.
• Split #1: Subject-verb agreement Options A, B, and E incorrectly use the singular IS Correction: brinjals . . . are
Eliminate A, B, and E
Also, eliminate E because when we use comparison words (e.g., as ____ as), we do not also use the verb compared in the same sentence.
• Split #2: parallelism, comparison, missing verb
Option D is a hot mess. -- D in the stripped sentence Scientists reported that brinjals in Polynesia . . . are at least twice what the [brinjal?] harvests of New Zealand. -- the sentence is nonsensical. Brinjals are not "twice what the brinjal harvests of New Zealand." -- what has no antecedent and makes no sense -- brinjals are incorrectly compared to harvests: brinjals in Polynesia are not twice what the brinjal HARVESTS of New Zealand are -- size should be mentioned (and what cannot stand in for size) -- no verb exists on the right side of the comparison (ARE) -- the correct comparative phrase is NOUNs are at least twice the size of the [OTHER SIMILAR] NOUNs
Eliminate option D.
The correct answer is (C).
* People who do not live in Southeast Asia or who are not foodies: A brinjal, singular, is an herb. Definition is here
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