According to Recent Studies Comparing the Nutritional Value of Meat from Wild Animals and Meat from Domesticated Animals, Wild Animals have Less Total Fat than do Livestock Fed on Grain and more of a Kind of Fat they Think is Good for Cardiac Health.

Question: According to recent studies comparing the nutritional value of meat from wild animals and meat from domesticated animals, wild animals have less total fat than do livestock fed on grain and more of a kind of fat they think is good for cardiac health.

(A) wild animals have less total fat than do livestock fed on grain and more of a kind of fat they think is
(B) wild animals have less total fat than livestock fed on grain and more of a kind of fat thought to be
(C) wild animals have less total fat than that of livestock fed on grain and have more fat of a kind thought to be
(D) total fat of wild animals is less than livestock fed on grain and they have more fat of a kind thought to be
(E) total fat is less in wild animals than that of livestock fed on grain and more of their fat is of a kind they think is

“According to recent studies comparing the nutritional value of meat from wild animals and meat from domesticated animals, wild animals have less total fat than do livestock fed on grain and more of a kind of fat they think is good for cardiac health.” - is a GMAT sentence correction question. These types of questions contain grammatical errors in the underlined sentence and we have to choose the correct statement from the options. This question checks Parallelism, Comparison of two elements and Modifiers. GMAT Sentence Correction questions comprise 11-16 questions to be completed within 65 minutes. Each Sentence Correction question contains a sentence with an underlined portion that includes 0-2 errors.

Answer: B

Explanation:

The given sentence correction question can be tested by the given-below rules:

• Parallelism
• Comparison of two elements
• Modifiers

Now, within the given question, the statement is - According to recent studies comparing the nutritional value of meat from wild animals and meat from domesticated animals, wild animals have less total fat than do livestock fed on grain and more of a kind of fat they think is good for cardiac health.

(A) This answer choice suffers from a pronoun error, as the pronoun "they" has no logical referent.
(B) This answer choice correctly compares "wild animals" with "livestock fed on the grain". Further, Option B avoids the pronoun errors seen in Options A, D, and E, as it employs no pronouns. Additionally, Option B avoids the grammatical construction errors seen in Options D and E, as it uses the single independent clause "wild animals have less total fat than livestock fed on grain and more of a kind of fat thought to be good for cardiac health"
(C) This answer choice incorrectly compares "wild animals" to "that (total fat) of livestock fed on the grain"; please remember, a comparison must always be made between similar elements.
(D) This answer choice incorrectly compares "total fat of wild animals" to "livestock fed on the grain"; please remember, a comparison must always be made between similar elements. Further, Option D suffers from pronoun ambiguity, as it is unclear whether "they" refers to "wild animals" or "livestock".
(E) This answer choice incorrectly compares "in wild animals" to "that (total fat) of livestock fed on the grain"; please remember, a comparison must always be made between similar things. Further, Option E suffers from pronoun error, as the pronoun "they" has no clear referent.

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