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Unlike the expansion plans for the city zoo, which call for the dredging of a large pond and the construction of a new roadway, the botanical gardens have an expansion plan that is more modest in scope.
A) the botanical gardens have an expansion plan that is more modest in scope.
B) the botanical gardens planned a more modest expansion.
C) the plans that are more modest in scope are those of the botanical gardens.
D) those for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope.
E) the expansion plans for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope than those.
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
THE PROMPT
• HIGHLIGHTS
UNLIKE X, Y
The moment that you see the word unlike (a preposition that must be followed by a noun), remember that it functions just as like functions.
Unlike and like are comparison words.
Start looking for comparison or contrast errors.
Comparisons and contrasts must be drawn between things of the same kind.
X and Y must be similar. (Compare apples to apples, not apples to oranges.)
In this sentence, unlike is followed by the expansion plans for the city zoo.
Whatever gets contrasted with that phrase must be similar to the noun [expansion] plans. (The noun does not have to be accompanied by "expansion" or any other adjective.)
• STRIP the sentence of unnecessary "noise"
Although I advise that you frequently strip sentences of "noise," doing so can be difficult with the prompt onscreen.
This sentence, by contrast, is fairly easy to strip because you need only remove one phrase, this way:
Unlike the expansion plans for the city zoo, which call for the dredging of a large pond and the construction of a new roadway, [u]the botanical gardens have an expansion plan that is more modest in scope.
The sentence, stripped:
Unlike the expansion plans for the city zoo . . . the botanical gardens have an expansion plan that is more modest in scope.
THE OPTIONS, inserted into a shortened sentence
→ Expansion plans are compared to botanical gardens.
→ Unlike X, Y
X = expansion plans for the city zoo
Y = the botanical gardens
Expansion plans and botanical gardens are not similar.
ELIMINATE A
→ Same problem as that in option A: expansion plans are compared to botanical gardens.
• Meaning error
→ Botanical gardens do not plan a more modest expansion! Botanical gardens do not plan anything. Ever. That meaning is absurd.
There are times in which it is acceptable for inanimate objects to have "agency."
We can say, for example, that a book states XYZ, or that the market responds to supply and demand.
Verbs that require high cognitive function, such as to plan, cannot be attached to inanimate objects.
ELIMINATE B
→ This sentence should seem jagged, halting, and redundant to you.
→ Unlike X, Y is not exactly violated, but the construction is stretched to the limit.
There are too many unnecessary words. The second part of the sentence turns into a long exercise in tortuous passive voice.
X = expansion plans for the zoo
Y = ??
Y = the plans that are more modest in scope, which in turn equals
Y = those (plans) of the botanical gardens
• Unnecessary repetition.
Why is the Y element repeated?
→ We do not need that are more modest in scope are those
Why not make the Y element similar to the X element, this way: . . . the plans of the botanical gardens are more modest in scope.
I would not eliminate this option on these bases alone.
I would eliminate this option on these bases and because it is much worse than option D.
At the least, do not eliminate this option on the first pass.
• Compared to option D, option C is inferior.
We do not know that part yet. KEEP, but look for a better option.
→ The items being contrasted are similar
Plans for the city zoo are compared to those (plans) for the botanical gardens
→ those makes a "different copy" of plans.
In the sentence, the first plans mentioned are connected to the city zoo.
The sentence mentions other, different plans—those [plans] of the botanical gardens.
We can use that and those to refer to a previous noun of which we make a "copy" with the pronouns so that the copy can be put into a different context.
-- Correct: Olives from Greece taste better than those from California. (those = a new and different "copy" of the noun olives)
-- Correct: Prose by J.R.R. Tolkien is more impenetrable than that by Dostoevsky.
(Just seeing whether you are awake. If you have no idea what I am talking about, never mind. If you do, I stand by that statement, heretical though it may be.)
ELIMINATE C. Option D is better than C.
KEEP
• Redundant, and fatally so.
→ than those refers to the expansion plans for the city zoo, but as winterschool points out, the word "unlike" already tells us that the two kinds of plans are different.
→ As TarunKumar1234 did , try plugging the noun in for "those."
Unlike the expansion plans for the city zoo . . . the expansion plans for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope than the expansion plans for the city zoo.
ELIMINATE E
The correct answer is D.
COMMENTS
Be careful with comparisons.
By "careful" I mean that you should ask yourself whether it would be a good idea to compare answers, to ask, "Which is worse? Which is better?"
You might not need to compare answers.
If four contain clear error, do not start comparing!
Check the fifth option to make sure it does not contain error, choose it, and move on.
Comparisons can be challenging, but if you do enough practice questions, you will begin to see the patterns, and if you do not see any patterns, you are too focused on small details. (Such focus is understandable. You want to do well. Good! It's just that sometimes you might need to pull back, to stand back, a little.)
These answers are all excellent, within a hair's breadth of one another.
TarunKumar1234 , I am bumping your answer to Best Community Reply.
Excellent work, everyone. Well done.
Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC1)
THE PROMPT
Quote:
• HIGHLIGHTS
UNLIKE X, Y
The moment that you see the word unlike (a preposition that must be followed by a noun), remember that it functions just as like functions.
Unlike and like are comparison words.
Start looking for comparison or contrast errors.
Comparisons and contrasts must be drawn between things of the same kind.
X and Y must be similar. (Compare apples to apples, not apples to oranges.)
In this sentence, unlike is followed by the expansion plans for the city zoo.
Whatever gets contrasted with that phrase must be similar to the noun [expansion] plans. (The noun does not have to be accompanied by "expansion" or any other adjective.)
• STRIP the sentence of unnecessary "noise"
Although I advise that you frequently strip sentences of "noise," doing so can be difficult with the prompt onscreen.
This sentence, by contrast, is fairly easy to strip because you need only remove one phrase, this way:
Unlike the expansion plans for the city zoo
The sentence, stripped:
Unlike the expansion plans for the city zoo . . . the botanical gardens have an expansion plan that is more modest in scope.
THE OPTIONS, inserted into a shortened sentence
Quote:
• Comparison (contrast) error
→ Expansion plans are compared to botanical gardens.
→ Unlike X, Y
X = expansion plans for the city zoo
Y = the botanical gardens
Expansion plans and botanical gardens are not similar.
ELIMINATE A
Quote:
• Comparison (contrast) error
→ Same problem as that in option A: expansion plans are compared to botanical gardens.
• Meaning error
→ Botanical gardens do not plan a more modest expansion! Botanical gardens do not plan anything. Ever. That meaning is absurd.
There are times in which it is acceptable for inanimate objects to have "agency."
We can say, for example, that a book states XYZ, or that the market responds to supply and demand.
Verbs that require high cognitive function, such as to plan, cannot be attached to inanimate objects.
ELIMINATE B
Quote:
• Construction error: not quite parallel phrases. The Y element seems to be mentioned twice, unnecessarily.
→ This sentence should seem jagged, halting, and redundant to you.
→ Unlike X, Y is not exactly violated, but the construction is stretched to the limit.
There are too many unnecessary words. The second part of the sentence turns into a long exercise in tortuous passive voice.
X = expansion plans for the zoo
Y = ??
Y = the plans that are more modest in scope, which in turn equals
Y = those (plans) of the botanical gardens
• Unnecessary repetition.
Why is the Y element repeated?
→ We do not need that are more modest in scope are those
Why not make the Y element similar to the X element, this way: . . . the plans of the botanical gardens are more modest in scope.
I would not eliminate this option on these bases alone.
I would eliminate this option on these bases and because it is much worse than option D.
At the least, do not eliminate this option on the first pass.
• Compared to option D, option C is inferior.
We do not know that part yet. KEEP, but look for a better option.
Quote:
• I do not see any errors
→ The items being contrasted are similar
Plans for the city zoo are compared to those (plans) for the botanical gardens
→ those makes a "different copy" of plans.
In the sentence, the first plans mentioned are connected to the city zoo.
The sentence mentions other, different plans—those [plans] of the botanical gardens.
We can use that and those to refer to a previous noun of which we make a "copy" with the pronouns so that the copy can be put into a different context.
-- Correct: Olives from Greece taste better than those from California. (those = a new and different "copy" of the noun olives)
-- Correct: Prose by J.R.R. Tolkien is more impenetrable than that by Dostoevsky.
(Just seeing whether you are awake. If you have no idea what I am talking about, never mind. If you do, I stand by that statement, heretical though it may be.)
ELIMINATE C. Option D is better than C.
KEEP
Quote:
[/quote]
• Redundant, and fatally so.
→ than those refers to the expansion plans for the city zoo, but as winterschool points out, the word "unlike" already tells us that the two kinds of plans are different.
→ As TarunKumar1234 did , try plugging the noun in for "those."
Unlike the expansion plans for the city zoo . . . the expansion plans for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope than the expansion plans for the city zoo.
ELIMINATE E
The correct answer is D.
COMMENTS
Be careful with comparisons.
By "careful" I mean that you should ask yourself whether it would be a good idea to compare answers, to ask, "Which is worse? Which is better?"
You might not need to compare answers.
If four contain clear error, do not start comparing!
Check the fifth option to make sure it does not contain error, choose it, and move on.
Comparisons can be challenging, but if you do enough practice questions, you will begin to see the patterns, and if you do not see any patterns, you are too focused on small details. (Such focus is understandable. You want to do well. Good! It's just that sometimes you might need to pull back, to stand back, a little.)
These answers are all excellent, within a hair's breadth of one another.
TarunKumar1234 , I am bumping your answer to Best Community Reply.
Excellent work, everyone. Well done.
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Unlike the expansion plans for the city zoo, which call for the dredging of a large pond and the construction of a new roadway, the botanical gardens have an expansion plan that is more modest in scope.
A) the botanical gardens have an expansion plan that is more modest in scope. -> Why do we compare "the expansion plans" with "the botanical gardens". We need plan vs plan. Incorrect.
B) the botanical gardens planned a more modest expansion. -> Same error as A. Incorrect.
C) the plans that are more modest in scope are those of the botanical gardens. -> Now, comparison seems better. Let's understand next. "those" jumps out for me. It is weird to say, the plans that are more modest in scope are expansion plans of the botanical gardens, can not we say direct. Incorrect.
D) those for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope. -> those refers to "expansion plans". It is better in comparison and direct to say, botanical gardens are more modest....Let's keep it.
E) the expansion plans for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope than those. -> Let's replace "those" with "expansion plans" and re-read it, the expansion plans for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope than expansion plans. It seems another version of C. It is no match for D. Incorrect.
So, I think D.
A) the botanical gardens have an expansion plan that is more modest in scope. -> Why do we compare "the expansion plans" with "the botanical gardens". We need plan vs plan. Incorrect.
B) the botanical gardens planned a more modest expansion. -> Same error as A. Incorrect.
C) the plans that are more modest in scope are those of the botanical gardens. -> Now, comparison seems better. Let's understand next. "those" jumps out for me. It is weird to say, the plans that are more modest in scope are expansion plans of the botanical gardens, can not we say direct. Incorrect.
D) those for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope. -> those refers to "expansion plans". It is better in comparison and direct to say, botanical gardens are more modest....Let's keep it.
E) the expansion plans for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope than those. -> Let's replace "those" with "expansion plans" and re-read it, the expansion plans for the botanical gardens are more modest in scope than expansion plans. It seems another version of C. It is no match for D. Incorrect.
So, I think D.
