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Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast

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Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   03 Jul 2013, 08:15
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Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they can survive on weekly or even monthly feedings; however, when food is readily available, they may eat frequently and grow very fat.

A as with other reptiles
B as other reptiles are able to
C as other reptiles do
D like other reptiles
E like other reptiles are able to do


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There is nothing grammatically wrong with C but we pick D because its concise? Because As + clause can also function as comparison.
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Re: Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   03 Jul 2013, 08:23
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Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they can survive on weekly or even monthly feedings; however, when food is readily available, they may eat frequently and grow very fat.

A as with other reptiles
B as other reptiles are able to
C as other reptiles do
D like other reptiles
E like other reptiles are able to do


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There is nothing grammatically wrong with C but we pick D because its concise?


no that is not why option C is wrong.
meaning is changed in option C
ACCORDING TO original question we are comparing capabilty of turtles with capability of reptile....
reptiles can ENDURE....and REPTILES DO ENDURE....they both have different meaning....

if option is like this:
as other reptiles CAN...===>then this option would have been correct.

hope it helps
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Re: Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   03 Jul 2013, 08:29
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IMO answer is D

The sentence is comparing Turtles with other reptiles in terms of feeding frequency.

A, B, C are wrong since As requires clause or describing a function. Here the sentence is comparing Turtles to other reptiles
E is wrong since like requires a noun /pronoun and not a clause.
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Re: Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   03 Jul 2013, 08:37
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Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they can survive on weekly or even monthly feedings; however, when food is readily available, they may eat frequently and grow very fat.
The opening of the sentence starts with a Noun "Turtle" & because we are comparing two NOUNS we must use Like as AS is not possible option here.
A as with other reptiles - AS can't be followed by noun or noun phrase. Incorrect
B as other reptiles are able to - We can not use AS because the comparison is between two nouns. Incorrect
C as other reptiles do - We can not use AS because the comparison is between two nouns. Incorrect
D like other reptiles - Correct
E like other reptiles are able to do - LIKE can't be followed by Clause. Incorrect
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SCTurtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 23 Sep 2014, 17:00
Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they can survive on weekly or even monthly feedings; however, when food is readily available, they may eat frequently and grow very fat.

A as with other reptiles
B as other reptiles are able to
C as other reptiles do
D like other reptiles
E like other reptiles are able to do

POE plz .. OA to follow in the next 24 hours

One question- I am confused between the parts of comparision .. is it the turtle and reptiles being compared OR the endurance of turtle or reptiles ?

Originally posted by dshuvendu on 23 Sep 2014, 13:10.
Last edited by pqhai on 23 Sep 2014, 17:00, edited 1 time in total.
Please underline the question next time. Thanks.
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SCTurtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they [#permalink] New post   23 Sep 2014, 16:59
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Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they can survive on weekly or even monthly feedings; however, when food is readily available, they may eat frequently and grow very fat.

A as with other reptiles
Wrong. As + clause, Not noun phrase.

B as other reptiles are able to
Wrong. "able to what?"

C as other reptiles do
Wrong. Attractive but wrong. You are comparing turtles and other reptiles, so the structure "like X, Y do....." is enough. In addition, "do" and "can endure" are not parallel.

D like other reptiles
Correct.

E like other reptiles are able to do
Wrong. Like + noun/noun phrase, not clause.

dshuvendu wrote:
One question- I am confused between the parts of comparision .. is it the turtle and reptiles being compared OR the endurance of turtle or reptiles ?

You are comparing turtles and other reptiles.

Hope it helps.
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Re: Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   05 Jul 2016, 03:28
A. incorrect

as with other reptiles (unnecessarily wordy)

B. same as A

C. as other reptiles do (what?)

D. correct
like followed by a noun E.

E. incorrect
Like folllowed by a clause


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Re: Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   20 Mar 2017, 01:31
"like" used for noun to noun comparisions
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Re: Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   23 Mar 2017, 10:44
Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they can survive on weekly or even monthly feedings; however, when food is readily available, they may eat frequently and grow very fat.

A as with other reptiles
B as other reptiles are able to
C as other reptiles do
D like other reptiles
E like other reptiles are able to do

between C and d, c means that the reptile endure,while D means that reptiles have the ability to endure.

D is the correct sentence.
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Re: Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   23 Mar 2017, 10:56
fozzzy wrote:
Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they can survive on weekly or even monthly feedings; however, when food is readily available, they may eat frequently and grow very fat.

A as with other reptiles
B as other reptiles are able to
C as other reptiles do
D like other reptiles
E like other reptiles are able to do


Correct idiomatic & Comparison usage is : X like Y

Turtles, like other reptiles, can endure long fasts because they can survive on weekly or even monthly feedings; however, when food is readily available, they may eat frequently and grow very fat.

Thus, the correct answer must be (D)
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Re: Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   03 Jul 2017, 08:14
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Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   18 May 2018, 04:50
The problem with C is that "Turtle as other reptiles do" sounds awkwardy, I understand for comparision using As the noun should be followed by a clause.

But do and Can sounds awkwardy or might be redudant too ... D makes it much more clearer.
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Re: Turtles, as with other reptiles, can endure long fast [#permalink] New post   08 Feb 2019, 00:30
The thumb rule is that we use 'Like' to compare nouns and 'As' to compare actions (verbs). Looking at the answer choices the only option that compares Turtles (a noun that requires another noun to be compared to) to another noun is option D.
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