himanshu0077
I am having problem in arriving at the part of sentence which needs to be parallel. Like in option A : "By drawing their body heat from the Sun" is parallel to "Burning calories to generate it".
But why "The Sun" is not compared to "Burning calories to generate it". And as per this it is not parallel.
This is why you have to figure out
what the sentence is saying—at least on a basic level—before you start looking at isolated grammatical elements.
The sentence isn't about the Sun; it's about reptiles. If you look through the words and read them the same way you'd read a book, or an article, or the content of an e-mail (basically, just reading the words for what they
say; NO thoughts of grammar yet at this point), you should be able to figure this out without a ton of trouble.
The comparison/substitution/parallelism in this case—linked by the phrase "rather than"—is between
two contrasting ways of warming a body. Reptiles do one of these; they don't do the other one. (The second one describes how warm-blooded animals, such as humans, maintain body temperature.)
Only the first of these mechanisms involves the Sun, so the Sun is not going to be represented anywhere in the second one.
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How to come to the conclusion that comparison is done with the entity just before comparison word(rather than) --- "The Sun" or the whole phrase "By drawing their body heat from the Sun"??
In option B : comparison is done between the "The Sun" & "The generation of ..." OR "By drawing their body heat from the Sun" & "The generation of .....". And WHY??
Please clarify
Due Regards
All of these questions are answered by the intended meaning of the sentence (= what the sentence 'WANTS' to say), which you need to figure out as described above—using a combination of common sense and given context.