1000 SC Question #181

gmatgmat · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 1:47 pm Post subject: 1000 SC Question #181

Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet’s student and protégé when he was nineteen and, for a few years in the 1940’s, came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came

i chose C. because the sentence is in past tense, and no one did what Bob did before. so i use HAD DONE . could someone help explaining why it's A?

Thanks.

microke · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject:

What is the OA explanation? Can you tell us the source? Also it seems that the action of coming close to....something is only compared in A. I think that the question is expecting that only..

Answer choice C is in past perfect tense,which will not suit for this question.

gmatgmat · Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 10:21 pm Post subject:

there's no explanation for the answer. It's the 1000 SC Questions in this forum.

Can instructors kindly help?

Thanks. Smile

ddm · Posted: Fri Aug 22, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject:

can someone please help here....

iwill · Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:09 am Post subject:

IMO .A

came as close to being a carbon cop ... as ..is the correct idiom.
hence eliminate D, E.
First part is in Simple Past . Second part - as anyone has ever come-
is a statement , which doesnt took place before the first part. Hence usage of Past Perfect is not needed.

Hence Answer is A.