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by gmat_perfect » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:19 am

Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tussaud's work by 30 years, became well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.

(A) well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(B) well known as much for having an eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(C) well known as much because of her eccentric personality as she was for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(D) as well known for having an eccentric personality as having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(E) as well known for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures

[spoiler]OA: E[/spoiler]

Please explain why the wrong options are wrong.

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by The Jock » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:28 am

Let me try this...The answer should be "E"

A: bad parallelism
because of... is not parallel to for...

B: exhibits poor parallelism:
having an eccentric personality, a gerund phrase, is placed in parallel with skilful wax renderings..., a noun phrase.

C: extremely bad parallelism
- one part is a phrase (because of ...), and the other part is a complete clause (she was for her ...)
- because vs. for

D: bad parallelism
- 'for' in the second part is required(it should be '...as for having...')
- wordy (compare with the compact wording in choice e)

E exhibits proper parallelism, in that both of the parallel items are noun phrases (personality and renderings).

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by paes » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:07 am

IMO B

How E can be the OA. where is the verb ?

Patience Lovell Wright, <X>, as well known for <> as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures

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by kvcpk » Wed Jul 28, 2010 3:44 am

paes wrote:IMO B

How E can be the OA. where is the verb ?

Patience Lovell Wright, <X>, as well known for <> as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures

"became" is in the non-underlined part.

But still E doesnt seem good for me.

I chose B first, but B is not parallel either..

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by FightWithGMAT » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:06 pm

gmat_perfect wrote:Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tussaud's work by 30 years, became well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.

(A) well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(B) well known as much for having an eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(C) well known as much because of her eccentric personality as she was for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(D) as well known for having an eccentric personality as having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(E) as well known for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures

[spoiler]OA: E[/spoiler]

Please explain why the wrong options are wrong.

Wright became as well known for X as for Y.

It does not make any sense to me at all.

Became well known as for X as for Y

B still makes sense though not perfect parallel

Became well known as much for X as for Y.
X= having personality
Y= her skillful wax rendering of figures

simple gerunds can be compared with complex gerunds.

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by Tani » Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:23 pm

It looks as though became'" should not have been underlined. It is needed with all versions. Note it is not part of answer A

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by outreach » Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:11 pm

nice explanation by Ron

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by reply2spg » Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:13 pm

E is correct here. This is very tough problem.

I am down at B and E, because of the ||ism.

I rejected B because

'known for' is better than 'having personality' is

gmat_perfect wrote:Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tussaud's work by 30 years, became well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.

(A) well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(B) well known as much for having an eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(C) well known as much because of her eccentric personality as she was for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(D) as well known for having an eccentric personality as having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(E) as well known for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures

[spoiler]OA: E[/spoiler]

Please explain why the wrong options are wrong.

Sudhanshu
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