Shrinking faster than any other nation’s, the projected

[RonPurewal]

congratulations.

[aflaamM589]

My question is regarding another error in A, error that may be minor here .
Are the words allowed to drop the first time round?

Shrinking faster than any other nation’s, the projected decline of Japan’s population is 17 percent during the next half century.
A. Shrinking faster than any other nation’s, the projected decline of Japan’s population is

[RonPurewal]

yeah, that's fine. in fact, that's how that sort of thing should be written -- the extra "population" should be dropped from the MODIFIER, not from the main sentence.

[aflaamM589]

yeah, that's fine. in fact, that's how that sort of thing should be written -- the extra "population" should be dropped from the MODIFIER, not from the main sentence.

Ron, in this post https://www.manhattanprep.com/gmat/foru ... 32987.html
(3rd post of thread/ your second reply and reproduced below)
you said that this is a bad writing.
I am so confused.

Both these structures seem to me same.
What am i missing?
Thanks
Have a nice day
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Aflaam:Like Joe's, Jain's build is muscular-->Is it allowed?


Ron: this is bad writing, so it almost certainly wouldn't appear in a correct answer. but, more importantly—have you seen this as an issue in an actual GMAT problem?

[RonPurewal]

...and that's exactly why you should just focus on solving the multiple-choice problems, and not on trying to write these sentences.

click on that link -- i added an example of what a better-written sentence would say. clearly, the same thing can't be done with the sentence at hand here.