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by imskpwr » Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:13 pm
Few composers have been celebrated for their lyric writing as much as the lyrics of Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling.

a. Few composers have been celebrated for their lyric writing as much as the lyrics of Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling.

b. Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling has been celebrated for his lyric writing as few composers have.

c. Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling has been celebrated for his lyric writing more than few composers have.

d. Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling has been celebrated for his lyric writing as few composers has been.

e. Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling have been celebrated for lyric writing as few composers have.

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by imskpwr » Fri Oct 03, 2014 8:47 pm
Ooops! My mistake.

I thought the first word was a name and the subject is COMPOUND( X and Y has/ instead here X and Y are adjectives only not Noun). I got it. No need of explanation. Let others try for their practice.
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by [email protected] » Sat Oct 04, 2014 12:51 am
Hi imskpwr,

I will bet that you are not the first person to mis-interpret the first word in 4 of the answer choices. For anyone else who might make that same error, the word "Elizabethan" is an adjective, not the name of a person. An "Elizabethan composer" is a composer who lived during the time of Queen Elizabeth I. This SC is built around Verb issues - focusing on those rules should help you to answer the question.

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by james » Sun Oct 05, 2014 9:53 am
imskpwr wrote:Few composers have been celebrated for their lyric writing as much as the lyrics of Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling.

a. Few composers have been celebrated for their lyric writing as much as the lyrics of Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling.

b. Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling has been celebrated for his lyric writing as few composers have.

c. Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling has been celebrated for his lyric writing more than few composers have.

d. Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling has been celebrated for his lyric writing as few composers has been.

e. Elizabethan composer and lutenist John Dowling have been celebrated for lyric writing as few composers have.

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Let me give it a try:

A: compares "few composers" to the "lyrics of John"...wrong
B: John is not celebrated as "few composers"...but "John" has been celebrated as (much as) few composers have...wrong
C: John has been celebrated MORE THAN few composers have(bn celebrated).. looks ok
D: "few composers HAS been..." should be "John was celebrated as much as few composers have"..wrong
E: 2 errors: John HAVE been celebrated....AS few composers. wrong

Let me know if my explanations are correct... my take is C[/b]
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