Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence comes from dreams or undirected

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Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence  comes from dreams or undirected fantasy.

A) Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence

B) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud’s,

C) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud,

D) Much of Jung and Freud’s evidence

E) As with the evidence of Freud, much of Jung’s evidence

The official explanation is located  here .

atulpatil · Answer

The answer here is option (B).

Option B clearly compares Jung's evidence with Freud's evidence.

The concept of 'Ellipsis" is tested here in Option (B) :  Much of Jung’s evidence, like  Freud’s

" Freud's " here implicitly implies that it is Freud's evidence.

Ranasaymon · Answer

Meaning :The comparison is between Freud's evidence and Jung's evidence! Both evidences come in a similar manner.

Comparison Error : Freud v/s Jung's evidence

POE :
A) Like  Freud , much of  Jung’s evidence  Incorrect

B) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud’s,   Correct

C) Much of  Jung’s evidence,  like  Freud , Incorrect

D) Much of  Jung  and  Freud’s evidence  Incorrect

Meaning changed.

E)  As with the evidence of Freud , much of Jung’s evidence Incorrect

For comparing action, As+clause
This option incorrectly says that Jung's evidence plays the function of Freud's evidence.

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rishab0507 · Answer

Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence comes from dreams or undirected fantasy.

First of all Like cannot be used for comparing Subject: jung's evidence, We can use other forms like such as,much of, as much as. Like is used to introduce examples not compare

If we look at non underlined part, the word " Comes" is singular so we should look for singular subject, 
Option D is out as it requires plural.

Jung's evidence need to be compared with freud's evidence and not with freud .
A) Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence
 incorrect because of reason mentioned 
B) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud’s,
 Correct  
C) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud,
 Comparing juns's evidence with freud is wrong,

D) Much of Jung and Freud’s evidence
 incorrect because if requires plural noun

E) As with the evidence of Freud, much of Jung’s evidence
 Too wordy, Incorrect

monk123 · Answer

Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence comes from dreams or undirected fantasy.
 
POE:
Stop sign- like (comparison question)
Comparison error- Eliminate (A) & (C)
Parallelism error- Eliminate (D)
Change of meaning - Eliminate (E)

A) Like  Freud,  much of  Jung’s evidence

B) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud’s, -   CORRECT

C) Much of  Jung’s evidence , like  Freud ,

D)  Much of  Jung and  Freud’s  evidence

E) As  with the evidence  of Freud, much of Jung’s evidence

Ksher · Answer

Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence comes from dreams or undirected fantasy.

A) Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence - Incorrect because Freud and Jung's evidence are being compared.

B) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud’s, - Incorrect since Freud's evidence and much of Jung's evidence are being compared

C) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud, - Incorrect as Freud and much of Jung's evidence are being compared

D) Much of Jung and Freud’s evidence - Incorrect because much of Jung and Freud's evidence are being compared

E) As with the evidence of Freud, much of Jung’s evidence - Correct since After as, we can use prepositional phrase. "Much" decides everything because much of Jung's evidence and much of Freud's evidence should be compared. Originally, the sentence was like this: As it is the case with the evidence of Freud, ...... Then "it is the case" can be omitted.

Therefore, Correct answer choice is E.

debjit1990 · Answer

Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence comes from dreams or undirected fantasy.

A) Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence-wrong. Freud and Jung's evidence are being compared.

B) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud’s,-correct

C) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud,wrong Jung’s evidence and Freud are being compared.

D) Much of Jung and Freud’s evidence, plural. come should be there not comes.

E) As with the evidence of Freud, much of Jung’s evidence --too wordy

tyildirim92 · Answer

Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence  comes from dreams or undirected fantasy.

A) Like Freud, much of Jung’s evidence  // Freud, a human, is compared with Jung's evidence, an intangible

B) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud’s,  // perfect

C) Much of Jung’s evidence, like Freud,  // Freud, a human, is compared with Jung's evidence, an intangible

D) Much of Jung and Freud’s evidence  // "Much of Jung and Freud's evidence"??? "much of Freud's evidence" is fine but what does "a much of Jung" mean? plus, the intended meaning is distorted. there is no comparison marker in this sentence.

E) As with the evidence of Freud, much of Jung’s evidence  // "with" looks awkward. if there had been another "with" in the sentence, then this option could have been a contender.

generis · Answer

OFFICIAL EXPLANATION

Project SC Butler: Sentence Correction (SC1)

THE PROMPT  
 
•  like  is a preposition that means  similar to  — and GMAC prefers  like  to  similar to 
• use  like  to compare nouns and noun phrases

THE OPTIONS  
 
• Compares Freud (the person) to Jung's evidence (a thing)
• Rearrange words if you cannot figure out what is being compared:
Illogical:  Much of Jung's evidence is like Freud. 
Freud was odd (and if you ask me, a misogynist)—but he was definitely not Jung's  evidence .

• I see no errors
→ makes a comparison between  Jung's evidence  and  Freud's

→ As a quantifier,  much  always quantifies uncountable nouns and is singular

Correct : Much of Jung's evidence comes from dreams. 
 Correct : Much of Freud's evidence comes from dreams.
→ In option B, we are simply splicing those two sentences together.
KEEP
 
• This option has the same problem as that in option A. Namely, it

• Compares Jung's evidence to Freud
Take the word after  like  and rearrange the sentence:
 Illogical comparison :  Freud is like Jung's evidence. 
Freud did not come from dreams.
At least not mine. (Or those of anyone.) (Yes, I have studied this man's work far too often.)
ELIMINATE C
 
• This sentence is a much harder call than people are noticing, probably because people do not know the plurality rule below

• When two or more nouns possess the same thing, we add an apostrophe to only the final name in the series, and that one possessive noun indicates possession by all
→ Correct:  I went to Abby and Miriam's graduation .

If two or more nouns do not possess the same thing, we use an apostrophe with each noun.
→ Correct:  Kathy's and Tom's houses are about a block apart.

Non-count nouns such as  evidence,  because they are not pluralized, do not tell us whether we are talking about different things.

In this case, we  are  talking about different things.
Jung's evidence was similar but not identical to Freud's evidence.
Option D should state:  Much of Jung's and Freud's evidence 
ELIMINATE D

• GMAT does not like  as with  in place of  like 
• generally,  as  should be followed by a clause
• meaning is ambiguous and the sentence is clumsy
→ "evidence of Freud" could mean "proof that Freud existed" or "evidence that Freud used."
→ Compare to option B. No contest. Option B is clearer.
ELIMINATE E

The best answer is B.

COMMENTS

I will post the other OE in a few hours.

atulpatil  and  Ksher  , welcome to SC Butler.

Today, as long as you  explained  your answer, you get a smiley face.
No one explained the correct reason for eliminating D.
Be safe.

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