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Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than 07 Apr 2022, 05:42
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Thank you Charles, I have seen your video on YouTube.
One question I have is:
it refers to body heat because it is the subject of the first clause? It may be incorrect because first clause doesn't have a verb.
or because of logic?
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Thank you Charles, I have seen your video on YouTube.
One question I have is:
it refers to body heat because it is the subject of the first clause? It may be incorrect because first clause doesn't have a verb.
or because of logic?
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Hello Venkat999,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, we can tell that "it" refers to "body heat" because "body heat" is the only logical referent for "it".

We hope this helps.
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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.
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??

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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.
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
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It's a logic thing.

What are you comparing? - how the reptiles obtain body heat
Do they "draw their body heat directly from the sun" or do they "burn calories to generate it"? We are selecting the action they perform to obtain body heat.

Since in the non underlined part we have ... by "drawing their body heat ... ," then to be parallel the underlined part should have "burning calories ..."

To be parallel, option (B) could be:
...by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than generating body heat by burning calories...

Remember, the parallel elements should work standalone in the sentence.

Option (A)
Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun, can survive...
Reptiles, by burning calories to generate body heat, can survive...
Both correct.

Option (B)
Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun, can survive... - Correct
Reptiles, by the generation of body heat by burning calories, can survive... - Doesn't work. Who generates?
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Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than Updated on: 08 Sep 2022, 22:56
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Most people would find this question hard. The absence of "by" after "rather than" in the original sentence is likely to especially confuse people.

Surprisingly, it is below 700 level!

Also, if this is an official question, request Bunuel to tag it accordingly.
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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.
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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
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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.
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