<p>By comparison OR Indeed? </p>
<p>Do we have a consensus yet?</p>
<p>I got indeed.</p>
<p>I said “Indeed”. Why by comparison? The previous sentence agreed with the sentence in question, if I remember correctly.</p>
<p>It is “by comparison”, because there is a comparative adj there. for sure.</p>
<p>^^Yup. It was something like: Organic food is more expensive than regular food. Indeed, organic fruits and vegetables cost about 40 cents each more than regular food. …Something like that.</p>
<p>cool 
writing is not hard, expecting harsh curve, in compensation for devastating diff. math + CR</p>
<p>The sentence before said organic fruits cost more than commercial. I would say “indeed” would be redundant in this scenario. By hey, I put “By comparison”, so I’m biased.</p>
<p>By comparison was a tempting choice, but when I read over the paragraph like 3 times over, indeed was the best choice.</p>
<p>“Indeed…” is usually used when a fact is brought up after an allegation or possible hypothesis. In a case where both sentences are facts, it’s redundant.</p>
<p>For one question that had “The sentence should stay as it is”, and it was tempting, can anyone confirm it was NOT correct?</p>
<p>I put By comparison.</p>
<p>There is a comparative adjective in there. But as boston1993 has written the question, it doesn’t make sense to use by comparison in this situation. By comparison would imply juxtaposing the two sentences.</p>
<p>it must be by comparison, period :|</p>
<p>i put indeed. the other ones didn’t make sense in context</p>
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Nice argument.</p>
<p>also, indeed means that you have to have an explanation in prior/ or it’s a common-sense truth (not likely such is the case), which is certainly not included in the text. The text just has facts by facts, thus by comparison works best.</p>
<p>Good arguments on both sides in the indeed v.s. in comparison thing.</p>
<p>gar, this is gonna annoy the ***** out of me</p>
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The author was affirming a previous statement. You’re pulling these rules out of your —.</p>
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In what world does the latter follow from the former?</p>
<p>I don’t know why, but my gut just told me to pick indeed. If there was something like “In comparison to regular fruits and vegetables, organic fruits and vegetables cost 40% more,” that would’ve been the best. Neither indeed nor by comparison were good answers, but indeed seemed a little better. Still a pretty tough one though, at least in my opinion.</p>
<p>Indeed is definitely awkward. However, in context, it is better than by comparison. Would it make sense for someone to say “Apples are more expensive than oranges. By comparison, apples cost 40% more on average”?</p>