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by YellowSapphire » Sun Dec 19, 2010 9:24 am
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In no other live concert did Luciano Pavarotti generate such critical acclaim as did his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972.

A: did his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972
B: had his 1972 Metropolitan Opera performance
C: in his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972 *
D: his 1972 Metropolitan Opera performance did
E: his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972

Why are two verbs "did and generate"?
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by sachinahuja_85 » Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:37 am
I would go for D...............wats the OA?
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by Tani » Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:59 pm
This is a comparison issue. You have to compare Pavarotti at one performance to Pavarotti at another performance. You can't compare Pavarotti to a performance.
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by mithilesh.vnit85 » Sun Dec 19, 2010 7:55 pm
YellowSapphire wrote:Source: Knewton

In no other live concert did Luciano Pavarotti generate such critical acclaim as did his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972.

A: did his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972
B: had his 1972 Metropolitan Opera performance
C: in his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972 *
D: his 1972 Metropolitan Opera performance did
E: his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972

Why is two verbs "did and generate"?
Option B is incorrect as it's uses wrong tense.
C and E lacks the verb which is needed to maintain parallelism.
In Case of D and A, D is more concise than A, hence, I chose D.
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by prachich1987 » Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:18 pm
YellowSapphire wrote:Source: Knewton

In no other live concert did Luciano Pavarotti generate such critical acclaim as did his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972.

A: did his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972
B: had his 1972 Metropolitan Opera performance
C: in his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972 *
D: his 1972 Metropolitan Opera performance did
E: his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972

Why are two verbs "did and generate"?
I would go for A ..what's the OA?
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by M09 » Sun Dec 19, 2010 10:59 pm
Tani Wolff - Kaplan wrote:This is a comparison issue. You have to compare Pavarotti at one performance to Pavarotti at another performance. You can't compare Pavarotti to a performance.
Hi Tani,

I've a doubt: isn't it that the comparision is between his two performances?
Please help in understanding this one

Thanks!
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by YellowSapphire » Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:28 am
Tani Wolff - Kaplan wrote:This is a comparison issue. You have to compare Pavarotti at one performance to Pavarotti at another performance. You can't compare Pavarotti to a performance.
Hi Tani,

Based on your comment, I am unable to arrive at OA. Can you please explain about right answer?

Why are two verbs "did and generate"?
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by missionGMAT007 » Mon Dec 20, 2010 9:25 am
one more for A
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by tomada » Mon Dec 20, 2010 10:14 am
My choice is (C).

In no other live concert did Luciano Pavarotti generate such critical acclaim as in his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972
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by e-GMAT » Mon Dec 20, 2010 11:06 am
In no other live concert did Luciano Pavarotti generate such critical acclaim as did his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972.

Meaning of the sentence:
Luciano Pavarotti generated more critical acclaim in the concert at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972 than in any other live concert.

Analysis of Original Sentence: This sentence has two clauses as shown.
1: In no other live concert did Luciano Pavarotti generate such critical acclaim
2: as did his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972.

Note that we can rewrite clause 1 in the form as shown:such that the prepositional phrase appears after the the subject and the verb.
1(rewrite): Luciano Pavarotti did generate such critical acclaim in no other live concert
Note that the verb "did generate" can be changed into "generated". So the simplified sentence will be:

Luciano Pavarotti generated such critical acclaim in no other live concert as in his performance at the Metropolitan Opera in 1972.

Now its perfectly clear that the comparison is made between "in other live concert" and "in his performance at...."

Clearly, Choice A is worded such that the comparison is made between:
Laciano Pavarotti generated acclaim {in no other live concert...) as
his performance did (at the Metropolitan...)
Thus, comparing Laciano Pavarotti's action with his performance's action is no logically parallel. Thus, choice A has comparison error.

Answer Choice Analysis.
Choice B: "had" is incorrect helping verb. This choice implies as if Opera performance possessed something.
Choice C: Correct as explained above.
Choice D & E: Same comparison as Choice A and hence incorrect.
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by YellowSapphire » Mon Dec 20, 2010 8:17 pm
e-GMAT -- WOW! well explained

I am happy.
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