Pronoun ambiguity error

[agautamdai]

If the intake of carbohydrates is sufficiently low enough, the human body will enter ketosis, where it metabolizes fat directly rather than using glucose.


If the intake of carbohydrates is sufficiently low enough, the human body will enter ketosis, where it metabolizes fat directly rather than using glucose.

If the human body's intake of carbohydrates are sufficiently low, it will enter ketosis, a state in which fat is directly burned rather than metabolizing glucose.

In the case of a sufficiently low carbohydrate intake, the human body enters ketosis, a state in which it directly metabolizes fat rather than glucose.

In cases where carbohydrate intake is low enough, the human body will enter ketosis, in which fat rather than glucose is directly metabolized.

If the sufficient intake of carbohydrates is low enough, the human body will enter ketosis, in which its metabolism burns not glucose but fat.

All I want to understand is that how in C - it clearly refers to the human body it could very well refer to the ketosis -

Staff - Is there a rule which could help not eliminate the choice ...because I eliminated this choice and went with D because I thought that D is ambiguous....

[tim]

yeah, the rule is if there is SOMETHING in the sentence that the pronoun can refer to that makes sense, leave it alone. ambiguity is pretty much a nonissue now from what we've been able to find out..

[jp.jprasanna]

Hi Tim -

The original version ->

If the intake of carbohydrates is sufficiently low enough, the human body will enter ketosis, where it metabolizes fat directly rather than using glucose.

Option C ->

In the case of a sufficiently low carbohydrate intake, the human body enters ketosis, a state in which it directly metabolizes fat rather than glucose.

In C, isn't the modifier marked in Bold changes the meaning to make it ambiguous.

Original version says " Human body metabolizes fat directly instead of using glucose to metabolizes fat - CORRECT?

Now Option C says "Human body directly metabolizes fat and doesn't not metabolizes glucose when in a state of ketosis"

Am i reading this one correctly?

Cheers

[aliassad]

I do not think that the change in placement of directly affects the meaning

For example

I walked slowly towards the store

I slowly walked towards the store

Both are fine

Ali Asad

[jp.jprasanna]

I do not think that the change in placement of directly affects the meaning

For example

I walked slowly towards the store

I slowly walked towards the store

Both are fine

Ali Asad

hey thanks.

But I not worried about the placement of "directly" the difference that i wanted to clarify was "using glucose to metabolizes fat and metabolizing glucose itself as given in option A and C respectively.

[aliassad]

Oh k .

First of all. If the original choice contains grammatical mistake and it is corrected by changing the meaning of the sentence then you should go for it.

Grammar choice trumps all other considerations.

Here is the original part
" where it metabolizes fat directly rather than using glucose."

x rather than y
x is an adverb and y is a noun phrase I guess so not parallel .

The correct version

" a state in which it directly metabolizes fat rather than glucose"

fat rather than glucose

perfect parallelism

So will go for it.

[tim]

i'm not sure i see what the problem is here. remember to look for grammar mistakes, and if the meaning of a grammatically correct sentence makes any sense at all, keep it around..

[Gui]

Hi instructors! In (D) and (E), the " , in which" is right? Or the correct way is to use the appositive "a state in which"? Tks!

[Sage Pearce-Higgins]

Apologies for the delay in replying here. As you wrote, the structure here is an appositive. It's a kind of modifier that I call in my classes a "NOUN, NOUN modifier". For example, in the sentence 'I bought a car, a Rover.' the modifier 'a Rover' gives extra information about the car. Here, 'a state' is modifying 'ketosis' and there is another modifier 'in which...' modifying 'a state'. In short, it's all fine and is just the kind of slightly formal sentence structure that you're likely to see in GMAT problems.