Is running good for health ?

[thesilentwall]

in terms of meaning, the only necessary distinction is "reasonable meaning vs. nonsense meaning". the meaning of the original is immaterial; any sentence with a meaning that makes sense in context, and that isn't too farfetched or implausible, is acceptable.

put another way, it should never make a difference which choice happens to be choice (a); if you rearrange the answer choices, the problem should still have the same correct answer.

Thanks Ron! This is helpful.

[tim]

glad to hear it!

[inc.manni]

Is the usage "When Compared" Unidiomatic.

Regards

[RonPurewal]

Is the usage "When Compared" Unidiomatic.

Regards

please read the entire thread (or, at a minimum, all of my posts in it).

[aflaamM589]

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[tim]

okay then

[aflaamM589]

D) When compared with those who do not, people running three days a week save

Apart from when issue, is following also issue with D?

pronoun those coming before noun?
Ron , i read your statement somewhere that in this kind of a situation reader has to go back and forth to see what those is refering to--> so a bit of a problem if not downright incorrect.

[RonPurewal]

nah, that's easy enough to understand ("those who do not" is directly next to "people who xxxx"). not really an issue.

[aflaamM589]

Thoroughly assimilated.
Thanks

Another issue i want to confirm is that D drops the Verb in initial modifier, is this allowed?

D) When compared with those who do not, people running three days a week save

When compared with those who do not run, people running --> something such as this one can work but not what that is in option D
Is this reasoning valid?

[RonPurewal]

if the second part is "people who run three times..." then that could conceivably work. as currently written, it's nonparallel.

...but, again, why are you even trying to do this? this is a multiple-choice test! you will NEVER have to make these judgments individually!
you are making this a thousand times more difficult than it actually is!

[aflaamM589]

Thank you very much Ron.
I find you very patient through out.
God bless you

[RonPurewal]

you're welcome.