varotkorn wrote:
Dear
GMATGuruNY,
From your explanation, you mentioned that
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We have AS MANY apples AS [apples] need to be cooked.
However, when I apply the above principle to the official answer in this question, it doesn't work because "people" now has 2 verbs: "reside in" and "combined" as in:
A booming population center, the Asian continent is home to over 3.5 billion people, about AS MANY AS
[PEOPLE] RESIDE IN all the other areas of the world combined.
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In order to make this work, I think it should be
A booming population center, the Asian continent is home to over 3.5 billion people, about AS MANY AS
[PEOPLE WHO] RESIDE IN all the other areas of the world combined.
Now, this works because "combined" now modifies noun phrase "people who reside in ... of the world".
Could you please explain what should be the correct ellipsis for this question?
Thank you in advance!
Some modifiers are essentially sentences with one or more words omitted.
The thief grabbed the cash and ran.
His heart was pounding.To transform the second sentence into a modifier for the first, we can omit the word in blue.
The result is the following:
The thief grabbed the cash and ran, his heart pounding.The modifier in green is essentially a sentence with the blue word omitted.
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The Asian continent is home to over 3.5 billion people, about AS MANY AS [PEOPLE] RESIDE IN all the other areas of the world combined...
Could you please explain what should be the correct ellipsis for this question?
The Asian continent is home to over 3.5 billion people.
As many people reside in the Asian continent as reside in all other areas of the world combined.To transform the second sentence into a modifier for the first, we can omit the words in blue.
The result is the following:
The Asian continent is home to over 3.5 billion people, as many as reside in all other areas of the world combined.The modifier in green is essentially a sentence with the blue words omitted.
Note:
On the GMAT, it is VERY common for an SC to end with COMMA + COMPARISON PHRASE.
The comparison phrase will generally include
than or
as.
The purpose of the comparison phrase will be to EXPLAIN or DEFINE a data point in the preceding clause.
Official examples:
Soaring television costs accounted for more than half the spending in the presidential campaign of 1992, a greater proportion than in any previous election.
In 1979 lack of rain reduced India's rice production to about 41 million tons, nearly 25 percent less than the 1978 harvest.
Lake Baikal holds 20 percent of the world's fresh water, more than all the North American Great Lakes combined.
Only seven people this century have been killed by the great white shark, fewer than have been killed by bee stings.
Companies in the United States are providing job training and general education for nearly eight million people, as many as are enrolled in the nation's four-year colleges and universities.In each of the OAs above, the comparison phrase in red serves to explain the preceding data point in blue.
I would not worry too much about the ellipsis for these comparison phrases.
What matters is how they all function.
Each serves to explain a data point in the preceding clause.
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