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Hi egmat,

I saw in the course that When compared to/with is incorrect but here it's not. Please advise if I should mark striaght away incorrect or not.

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The domestic chinchilla is a diminutive creature, especially as compared with their wild counterparts, found high in the Andes.

A) especially as compared with their wild counterparts, found
B) as opposed to their wild counterparts, which can be found
C) particularly when compared to its wild counterpart, found
D) as compared against its wild counterparts that can be found
E) unlike its wild counterparts, who can only be found

The answer to this question has nothing to do with the difference between compare to and compare with, a difference that the GMAT does not test.

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

The sentence contains a pronoun error. The sentence is trying to compare
the domestic chinchilla to the wild chinchilla.

• Choices A and B incorrectly use the pronoun their to refer to the [singular] domestic chinchilla

Eliminate A and B. Look at the other choices.

• The correct idiom in the remaining options is compared to.
Choice D uses compared against, which is incorrect.

Eliminate D.

• The next thing to check is the parallel structure [between remaining choices C and E]
-- Choice E adds the word only, which changes the meaning of the sentence. [No other answer implies that the wild chinchilla is found ONLY in the high Andes. Infer from the absence of that word in all four other answers that E incorrectly adds "only."]
-- Choice E also incorrectly compares the singular domestic chinchilla to plural counterparts.

The correct answer is C.

COMMENTS

That OE is pretty good.
How do we know that chinchilla is singular?
In the non-underlined portion, the verb IS = singular.
" . . . chinchilla is . . ."

DisciplinedPrep , your answer is superb. Best answer. Kudos!