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by ranjeet75 » Fri May 04, 2012 7:47 am
Some of the people in the nineteenth century in India encountered far more intense opposition [u]against their struggle for social legitimacy than[/u] the organized social upheavals of most other periods.
A. against their struggle for social legitimacy than
B. in their struggle for social legitimacy as did
C. against their struggle for social legitimacy than
D. in their struggle for social legitimacy than did
E. when they struggled for social legitimacy than has

Please elaborate.
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by karthikchandru » Fri May 04, 2012 8:01 am
Options (A) and (C) have "against", which is unnecessary because "opposition" already conveys that.
Option (E) has tense issue -> "than has" is incorrect.
Option (B) -> Idiom has to be "far more.... than" and not "far more...as"

Option (D) -> corrects all the above-mentioned issues. Hence, I will go with it.

What's the OA?
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by rajcools » Fri May 04, 2012 9:21 am
yeah D for me too

idiom --- more than...eliminates many option
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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Fri May 04, 2012 9:32 am
A--"against" is redundant; lacks parallel form in the comparison

B--unidiomatic ("more as" should be "more than")

C--"against is redundant; lacks parallel form in the comparison (am I missing something, or is C the same as A?)

D--idiomatic and parallel; works well

E--the use of present perfect "has" is incorrect
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by ranjeet75 » Fri May 04, 2012 8:46 pm
Thanks to all.

OA is D
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