RonPurewal Wrote:rschunti Wrote:Also am I correct in assuming that choice "A" is wrong because we are comparing "growing fish" with their "natural growth rate.".?
"...suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as their natural growth rate.."
you are correct, if what you meant was that a faulty comparison (BAD PARALLELISM again) is being made.
because 'are growing fish' is a verb construction, it needs to be placed in parallel with another verb construction. choices a and b don't do that (there's no verb in 'their natural growth rate').
Although I understand that one good reason to eliminate A is that "a rate cannot be fast". I did not really understand the point here. Need to understand the parallelism concept here.
Do you mean to say the better one (at least grammatically) would be
"suppliers are growing fish twice as fast as are their natural growth rate"
Suppose we say
Ram is growing the crop as fast as 2kg per day.
This looks fine to me. We wont be saying
Ram is growing the crop as fast as is 2kg per day.
How the comparison should be done here ?
"suppliers are (growing fish twice) as fast as (their natural growth rate)"
OR
"suppliers (are growing fish twice) as fast as (their natural growth rate)"
OR
"suppliers (are growing fish) twice as fast as (their natural growth rate)"
And in the same way how is D maintaining the parallelism ?