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by raunekk » Sat Jul 26, 2008 12:26 am
In his eagerness to find a city worthy of Priam, the German archaeologist Schliemann cut through Troy and uncovered a civilization a thousand years older as was the city Homer’s heroes knew.
(A) older as was the city Homer’s heroes knew
(B) more ancient than the city known to Homer’s heroes
(C) older than was the city known to Homer’s heroes
(D) more ancient of a city than Homer’s heroes knew
(E) older of a city than was the one known to Homer’s heroes
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by sethids » Sat Jul 26, 2008 3:23 am
IMO C.

Older is more concise and appropriate than 'more ancient'. Also, older than is the correct usage.

Please comment if you think otherwise.
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by raunekk » Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:03 am
sethids..

Even i fell for C,,,

OA is B


Even i am not able to digest how "more ancient" is correct...


Anyone???
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by sethids » Sat Jul 26, 2008 4:14 am
The only bad thing I can see with C is "than was the city..."
Still, IMO older is better than more ancient.

More comments on this please.
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by ildude02 » Sat Jul 26, 2008 6:43 am
It's a tricky one but I would select B only because it compares the two things the proper way with "more ..than" usage. Besides, "was" in C is not needed.
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by raunekk » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:06 am
u mean...

IF C wud have been- older than the city known to Homer’s heroes

It wud have been correct??
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by kiran.raze » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:07 am
Well , I think B is the winner simply because of the elimination of option C. C wrongly compares a noun 'city' with a verb (action) 'was', which is incorrect - the right comparison is either a noun to a noun - city to city or action to action.

so B is the one left - which uses the right comparison.
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by ildude02 » Sat Jul 26, 2008 7:29 am
raunekk wrote:u mean...

IF C wud have been- older than the city known to Homer’s heroes

It wud have been correct??
It would have been better without "was" but than, "ancient" is more preferred to "older" when referring to age of cities or civilizations.
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