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Re: Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than [#permalink] New post   29 Sep 2020, 09:36
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What's the problem with D exactly? I could understand from the previous posts that 'rather than' shows preference and 'instead of' is used for replacement. How do we identify what needs to be used in the answer choice?




Hello @adkikan/Arpit,

Thank you for the PM. :)


Choice B violates parallelism. The sentence uses the phrase X rather than Y. Per choice B:

X = by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun = prepositional phrase
Y = the generation of body heat by burning calories = noun phrase

The above mentioned elements are neither grammatically parallel nor logically. Please note that by burning calories in Y just modifies the preceding noun the generation of body heat. The Choice actually makes by drawing... parallel to the generation....


Hope this helps. :-)
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Re: Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than [#permalink] New post   29 Sep 2020, 09:39
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adkikani wrote:

Hi Shraddha,
What's the problem with D exactly? I could understand from the previous posts that 'rather than' shows preference and 'instead of' is used for replacement. How do we identify what needs to be used in the answer choice?

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Hi
I do agree that parallelism in (A) makes much sense since we assume (by) before burning calories.
However, from grammar point of view, why is B incorrect?
As far as parallelism rule goes, noun modifiers can be parallel to each other.
Here, drawing is a verb-ing modifier is in parallel with modifying noun - Reptiles
and noun + noun modifier generation of body heat, a noun
and by burning calories (again a verb-ing modifier) also modifies noun - reptiles.
Am I correct?
WR,
Arpit



Hello @adkikan/Arpit,

Thank you for the PM. :)


Choice B violates parallelism. The sentence uses the phrase X rather than Y. Per choice B:

X = by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun = prepositional phrase
Y = the generation of body heat by burning calories = noun phrase

The above mentioned elements are neither grammatically parallel nor logically. Please note that by burning calories in Y just modifies the preceding noun the generation of body heat. The Choice actually makes by drawing... parallel to the generation....


Hope this helps. :-)
Thanks.
Shraddha
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Re: Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than [#permalink] New post   16 Aug 2021, 13:34
The key of this question filter down to A or D; and people start thinking instead of vs rather than, and saying it is the meaning of "preference/in place of"... That is not the reason,

the reason to eliminate D is just lack of style, instead of "by" burning is redundant. A is cleaner.
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Re: Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than [#permalink] New post   07 Apr 2022, 05:42
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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Re: Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than [#permalink] New post   06 Sep 2022, 19:37
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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Reptiles, by drawing their body heat directly from the Sun rather than [#permalink] New post   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.

Originally posted by EducationAisle on 07 Sep 2022, 05:20.
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