Because young children do not organize their attention or perceptions

Question

Because young children do not organize their attention or perceptions systematically,  like adults , they may notice and remember details that their elders ignore.

(A) like adults

(B) unlike an adult

(C) as adults

(D) as adults do

(E) as an adult

Prateekj05 · Accepted Answer

The author is  not comparing children to adults.  He's comparing  what children don't do to what adults do 
It's a case of  like vs as  
 Like  is used to compare  nouns .  As  is used to compare  Clauses . Since it's a clause, we will use  as .  A  and  B  are eliminated.
Among  C,D and E , only D is parallel. Answer should be  D .

NinetyFour · Answer

POE:

A) This choice changes the meaning, because it says adults also do not organize their attention or perceptions. But the point of the sentence is to convey contrast between children and adults. 
C) This choice is wrong for two reasons. 1) we need to show contrast between children and adults and 2) AS is only used for clauses not nouns
E) same as D, but worse because children is plural and you would need ADULTS to maintain parallelism

We have B and D remaining:
B) Incorrect because Like/Unlike is used to compare nouns and we have to show contrast between what children DO and what adults DO.
D) If we plug everything back into the sentence it would read "Because young children do not organize their attention or perceptions systematically,  as adults   , they may notice and remember details that their elders ignore.

Correct answer: D

gmatconqueror2018 · Answer

D. Comparing actions of children to those of adults. Like is comparing people/things, as is used for comparing actions. Logical comparison needed, hence D

lary301254M7 · Answer

Because young children  do not organize  their attention or perceptions systematically, like adults, they may notice and remember details that their elders ignore.

(A)  like  adults

(B)  unlike  an adult

(C)  as adults

(D) as adults  do

(E) as  an adult

The key is "do not organize". We are comparing an action that both adults and young cha ildren perform
Therefore, we cannot use "like". Like is followed by a noun phrase; as is followed by a clause with a verb.

Eliminate (A) and (B)

Between (C), (D), (E)
(C) is incorrect because there is no verb present
(E) is incorrect because there is no verb present and it uses singular "an adult". You cannot compare plural "young children" to singular "an adult"

(D) is correct

Ans: (D)

EDIT: why was I marked incorrect  sudarshan22

sudarshan22 · Answer

Official Explanation :

The sentence does not compare children to adults, instead compares what children don't do to what adults do.

Choices A, B, C,  and  E  are faulty because they compare dissimilar entities, also the verb is part of the comparison, therefore, we need "  as  ".

Choice D , is the best answer.

Nijssen · Answer

Parallelism with 'do', like is only for nouns so use as, so D.

SonGoku · Answer

Hey  generis  ,  GKomoku .
I am always doing wrong on these Like vs As questions even though I know that noun follows like and clause follows as.
Please clear my mind on this .

vasuca10 · Answer

Straight D as actions of children are compared with that of an adult

MHIKER · Answer

This is a comparison question of action of young children with the action of elders and like is used to compare nouns "as'' compare clauses. We need as here to compare the two actions. Only D gives perfect meaning.

The answer is D.

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