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by ankit1383 » Wed Dec 10, 2008 6:27 pm
Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened out the melodic contours of tunes, and, in effect, recomposed songs to suit her range, style, and artistic sensibilities.
A. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened.
B. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice in a similar way to how other musicians play instruments, in ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
C. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians played instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
D. Billie Holiday used her voice in the same way that other musicians use their instruments, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattening.
E. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians
Instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.

Can anyone explainthe usage of like in this sentence............
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by rohangupta83 » Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:40 pm
ok - logical comparisons

imo E btw

The first part of the sentence says:

Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer - who was deliberately imitating? - Billy Holiday and not Billie Holiday’s approach

choices A and B are out

Choice C says - using her voice like other musicians played instruments - her voice should be compared to ''other musicians instruments''
C - incorrect

Choice D - in that she ranged freely over the beat - she didn't range freely over the beats - her voice did.
D - incorrect

Choice - E - This would be my pick

Solves the problem in C by comparing voice with ''other musicians instruments''
Solves problem in D by saying that the voice was ranging and not she herself.

Its close between C and E as I am not sure whether the sentence is using Billie Holiday's voice as an Instrument or a Played Instrument. And I know that choice E is definitely correct grammatically so I pick E.
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Re: Deliberately imitating

by duke » Wed Dec 10, 2008 7:59 pm
ankit1383 wrote:Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened out the melodic contours of tunes, and, in effect, recomposed songs to suit her range, style, and artistic sensibilities.
A. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened.
B. Billie Holiday’s approach to singing was to use her voice in a similar way to how other musicians play instruments, in ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
C. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians played instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
D. Billie Holiday used her voice in the same way that other musicians use their instruments, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattening.
E. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.

Can anyone explainthe usage of like in this sentence............
This is a difficult question and makes test takers do a mistake.
We need to only C, D, and E. Also we need to notice that C and E have a similar structure but D does not. So let's take D first.
"Imitating ~, Billie used ~, in that she ranged ~ and, in effect, recomposed ~." Now we see something wrong here with D.
So, we are left with C and E. But C is wrong with "like ~". E is the answer.
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by ronniecoleman » Wed Dec 10, 2008 9:38 pm
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by umaa » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:19 pm
IMO D.

Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening. - I think its wrong. OA pls.

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by rohangupta83 » Wed Dec 10, 2008 10:42 pm
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I do hate the passive construction in E but I think that choice D has a bigtime pronoun error. In choice D the sentence states that "she ranged freely over the beat". I find it humanly quite impossible for a person to range freely within beats. If the sentence had said "her voice" instead of "she" I would've gladly accepted Choice D as the answer.

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by ankit1383 » Thu Dec 11, 2008 1:17 am
Please some more explanation on this..
Can someone explain th eusage of like in this....

OA.....will be discussed later.....its between D and E
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by vivek.kapoor83 » Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:24 am
C. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians played instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening. - If we replace 'Like" with 'as'...it would be better option D. Billie Holiday used her voice in the same way that other musicians use their instruments, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattening. ... this is my pick, but ranged and flattening are not parallel...still better than others.E. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians
Instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening. - I would hv picked E but usage of like is stopping me ...coz if u use 'as' instead of 'like' , it would be better.
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by orel » Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:53 am
i think E is incorrect because:

E. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians
Instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.

the red part does not sound correct to me

i'd go w/ D
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by rohangupta83 » Thu Dec 11, 2008 2:35 pm
ankit1383 wrote:Please some more explanation on this..
Can someone explain th eusage of like in this....

OA.....will be discussed later.....its between D and E
I believe we are comparing ''voice'' (noun) with ''instrumetns'' (noun) and that's why we have a like

for "as" to be present we needed the verb "do" as well.
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by elementary » Mon Mar 25, 2013 4:42 am
Also note that 'ranged' in the underlined portion should be parallel to 'composed', which is not underlined. This is a common trap in SC. Given the parallelism, A and D are the only possible choices, and A is eliminated because of the modifier. Therefore, D is correct. :-)
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by Nachiket » Sat Mar 30, 2013 10:53 am
ankit1383 wrote:Deliberately imitating the technique of Louis Armstrong, jazz singer Billie Holiday�s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened out the melodic contours of tunes, and, in effect, recomposed songs to suit her range, style, and artistic sensibilities.
A. Billie Holiday�s approach to singing was to use her voice like an instrument, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattened.
B. Billie Holiday�s approach to singing was to use her voice in a similar way to how other musicians play instruments, in ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
C. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians played instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.
D. Billie Holiday used her voice in the same way that other musicians use their instruments, in that she ranged freely over the beat, flattening.
E. Billie Holiday approached singing by using her voice like other musicians
Instruments, ranging freely over the beat, flattening.

Can anyone explainthe usage of like in this sentence............

E cannot be correct because you are comparing a verb ( using her voice) with a noun ( other musician instruments). Moreover, Like is used to compare nouns/noun phrases and "as" is used to compare verbs phrases. Therefore, we can easily eliminate A,C and E.

Choice B is wordy and "in ranging freely over the beat" seems like a dangling modifier.


This comparison is corrected in choice D where we are comparing a verb ( used her voice) with a verb ( other musicians use their instruments). And have also avoided the usage of "Like"

Therefore my pick D
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