<p>“The author was affirming a previous statement. You’re pulling these rules out of your —.”</p>
<p>Why would that statement need an affirmation? It was affirmed as it is. It’s like saying</p>
<p>“The sea is more blue than the sky. Indeed, the sea is 40% more blue than the sky.” What is the point of indeed?</p>
<p>Indeed was my gut choice, but I ended up putting by comparison. It just sounded better to me, I don’t really have a grammatical explanation.</p>
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I think that’s how I rationalized using by comparison instead of indeed.</p>
<p>Anyone remember the answer to the Tornado question? It was the first question on the very last page of Section 10. </p>
<p>I put D, the only answer with the word have, but to be honest, I had no idea what I was doing for that question and would love any insight you guys have.</p>
<p>I think it was a poor question.</p>
<p>How about: “Apples are more expensive than oranges. Indeed, apples cost 40% more on average”?
readers don’t know if it really does cost that much more, what if one says: 20%, or 50%?</p>
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So that the argument is valid.</p>
<p>The grass is more blue than the sky. …</p>
<p>Argument is not valid.</p>
<p>It’s definitely indeed. The subject of the sentences in that whole paragraph was organic food. Comparison requires two objects, but the previous sentence stated how expensive organic food was . It does not make sense to say by comparison when the previous sentences were talking about organic foods.</p>
<p>again, it must be by comparison, period :|</p>
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…What? The passage is giving you the statistics.</p>
<p>Tornado question: “as a result of either…”</p>
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I agree. I can see how it could have been either one</p>
<p>Ultimately the question it this:</p>
<p>Is the sentence structure "In comparison, “something” is “more/less adjective” than “something else” grammatical?</p>
<p>@boston1993: Then the passage has poor argument, like when you inform a new fact to some one, will you say “indeed blah blah” with numbers? Readers don’t know IF the facts are correct, how can they accept indeed? It should be, in that way, to be “according to …”</p>
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Whether or not the statistic is correct is irrelevant to the answer. I have no clue what you’re getting at.</p>
<p>I thought that in the preceding sentence to the 40% more stat. non-organic foods were mentioned. Thus, I picked comparison as the only logical answer</p>
<p>Actually…I’m seeing what you guys are arguing now. By comparison could work. If you think about it, “In comparison to normal fruits and vegetables” would probably be the most adequate answer. By comparison can be used as a shorter version of that phrase, with the item compared being implied.</p>
<p>Wait, so is it ‘indeed’ or ‘by comparison’?</p>
<p>need a writing pro here</p>
<p>omg, for astonishing dense population, i think i missed it prob bc it’s almost the last one… Don’t remember choosing astonishing. this is so bad it’s an easy one! does anyone remember the full sentence of this?</p>
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Both organic and non-organic foods were mentioned in the preceding sentence. Regardless, there was no comparison of statistics so it wouldn’t matter anyway.</p>