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Can anyone explain why the below sentence is not ambiguous?

A. Kim needs a tennis trainer, like her brother.

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My 2 cents:

Kim needs a tennis trainer, like her brother.

Like compares two nouns and it must touch them. Here like is drawing a comparison between the trainer and Kim.
If you could please post the question and context we could solve this better.

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It is not ambiguous because it is suggesting that someone similar (in characteristics) to Kim's brother should be Kim's tennis trainer.

However, I don't believe that "commas" should be there.
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My 2 cents:

Kim needs a tennis trainer, like her brother.

Like compares two nouns and it must touch them. Here like is drawing a comparison between the trainer and Kim.
If you could please post the question and context we could solve this better.

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The original sentence is "Kim needs a tennis trainer like her brother." which is ambiguous as per eGMAT. They suggested that the sentence with comma is not ambiguous and compares Kim with her brother.
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It is not ambiguous because it is suggesting that someone similar (in characteristics) to Kim's brother should be Kim's tennis trainer.

However, I don't believe that "commas" should be there.
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As per eGMAT, it is not ambiguous, however they suggested that the comparison is between Kim and her brother and between Kim's brother and the tennis trainer. Moreover the original sentence was not having any comma and it was ambiguous as per eGMAT, they introduced the comma to remove the ambiguity.
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Hi AmbivertPerson, if the intent of the sentence is to compare Kim and her brother, then the sentence should be:

Like her brother, Kim needs a tennis trainer.
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Can anyone explain why the below sentence is not ambiguous?

A. Kim needs a tennis trainer, like her brother.
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Like her brother is a noun phrase modifying a noun tennis trainer. I'm not sure whether this is called an absolute phrase or appositive. BTW, both absolute phrases and appositives are preferred constructions in GMAT.

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