jabhatta2 wrote:
Hi
DmitryFarber RonTargetTestPrep zhanbo sayantanc2k avigutman DmitryFarber AnishPassi ReedArnoldMPREP - I keep reading that the initial modifier CANNOT modify "
Children" ?
I fail to see why not
Why cant
children themselves be adjusted for
body weight ?
- Women vs Men are adjusted for body weight all the time (This happens all the time by Nutritionists ,prescribing how much to eat in order to lose weight)
- This article here is adjusting body weight of ants vs humans Article here
- In fact the above article says, Ants can carry more weight than humans can carry [Once Ants are adjusted by their body weight]
Furtheremore, below is a screenshot for exmaple regarding how
men vs
women are adjusted by body weight
by nutritionists.
So , I thought the same idea must be happening.
Children once
adjusted for body weight ,
drink as much coffee as
adults drink
Counter point -- what is more likely to be "Adjusted for body weigiht" --
the children OR the
caffeine intake ?
Frankly, i thought "
Children" made more sense
to be adjusted for body weight "
Caffeine intake" did not make much sense to
be adjusted for body weight - I have never heard of intangible objects
being adjusted for body weight For example
- If we say -- When adjusted by body weight, amount of meat eaten by lions IS LESS compared to amount of meat eaten by humans
- What exactlly is being adjusted for body weight ? Its not the amount of meat. That doesnt make sense. -- it is the weight/height of the lion vs the weight/height of the human being that is being adjusted by body weight
- The weights of the meat itselves are not being compared
Simirlarly, - i thought -- the
weight / height of children vs
weight / height of adults are
being adjusted -- thus "
Children" are being
adjusted by body weight.
i chose (A) over (B)
Source of screenshot: Link hereThere's a lot here. I think I'll just look at this one point:
Quote:
What exactlly is being adjusted for body weight ? Its not the amount of meat. That doesnt make sense. -- it is the weight/height of the lion vs the weight/height of the human being that is being adjusted by body weight
I think the amount of meat is what is adjusted for body weight, not the weight of the lion or the weight of the human being.
The lion itself certainly isn't. The human certainly isn't. You would really—to be as precise as possible—need to specify that the height/weight of the lion/human is being adjusted.
The sentences here only ever offer "children" or "groups of children" to be adjusted for body weight. You're probably right, that in 'The Real World,' such a sentence as "When adjusted for body weight, men and women eat the same amount of meat" would be okay.
What a sentence really should say is:
"Men and women eat the same amount of meat, when adjusted for body weight."
Meaning:
"Men and women eat the same amount of meat, when [the amount of meat] is adjusted for [the] body weight [of men and women]."
This seems like one of those times where common-parlance uses a construction that, looked at under stricter rules, does not imply the meaning the sentence is clearly going for. As I'm sure you've seen, many respected written publications will allow the word 'which' to refer to a *clause* rather than a noun, **which is** what makes it so hard to spot the error on the GMAT.