Researchers have found that the human body can use protein derived fro

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Researchers have found that the human body can use protein derived from whey more efficiently than it can use  protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or drinking milk .

A. protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or drinking milk

B. protein from other sources like soy, eggs or drinking milk

C. protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or milk

D. protein which it has derived from other sources such as soy, eggs or drinking milk

E. its protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or milk

Would appreciate if you could explain in which cases we use "like" and "such", and why we can't use "like" here?
Thanks!

GyanOne · Answer

You can actually reach the correct answer here without even distinguishing between the 'like' and the 'such as'

Options A, B, and D use the phrase 'drinking milk', which besides being non-parallel, is grammatically wrong.

Between C and E, E loses it for using 'its' -> what does 'its' refer to here? It can only be referring to the human body (as the previous 'its' does), but the human body can't be using its own protein derived from eggs, soy, and milk!

Therefore C is the best choice here.

dvinoth86 · Answer

1. examples should be introduce by such as not like.
2. AND is an important word on the GMAT. the element joined by and should play the same role in the sentence, elements can be nouns, verbs or phrases.

A. protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or  drinking  milk : elements are not parallel
B. protein from other sources  like  soy, eggs or drinking milk
C. protein from other sources  such as soy, eggs or milk  
D. protein which  it  has derived from other sources such as soy, eggs or  drinking  milk
E.  its  protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or milk

dvinoth86 · Answer

Check this for additional reading. Don't forget to hit the Kudos button

https://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/like-versus-such-as.aspx

keiraria · Answer

the original choice mistake is breaking the parallel structure in a list of items 
It should be milk

such as is used to list an series of example

I like darks colors such as red , black and indigo

' like " I will give you the explanation a Kaplan instructor once gave me 
SNOPPY , like dogs eats a lot 
SNOPPY , like cats eats a lot

those are The 2 cases for like 
Hope this help you

best regards

kudos are best welcomed !

chesstitans · Answer

D and E changes the meaning of the sentence, B is out because of the word "like", 
between A and C, ones should safely have C as the correct answer because it is more formal and concise.

rahimk7 · Answer

ANS C)

Derived from Whey is parallel to from other sources.

Option D use redundant meaning.

Derived from other sources

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TejasD · Answer

Obviously, drinking is used as a verb in A, however, if it were used as an adjective how would it matter?

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chesstitans · Answer

Researchers have found that the human body can use protein derived from whey more efficiently than it can use protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or drinking milk.

A. protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or  drinking milk 
B. protein from other sources  like  soy, eggs or  drinking milk 
C. protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or milk
D. protein  which it has derived  from other sources such as soy, eggs or  drinking milk 
E.  its  protein from other sources such as soy, eggs or milk

Bunuel · Answer

KAPLAN OFFICIAL EXPLANATION:

C.

The underlined portion contains a list of 3 sources of protein. These 3 sources must have parallel forms, but  soy, eggs,  and  drinking milk  do not. A parallel construction would be  soy, eggs,  or  milk . So (A), (B), and (D) are out. (E) adds the ambiguous and unnecessary pronoun  its . (C) is correct.

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