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by gmat740 » Fri May 01, 2009 2:39 am
The Parthenon was a church from 1204 until 1456, when Athens was taken by General Mohammed the Conqueror, the Turkish sultan, who established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as a fortress.
(A) who established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as
(B) who, establishing a mosque in the building, used the Acropolis like
(C) who, when he had established a mosque in the building, used the Acropolis like
(D) who had established a mosque in the building, using the Acropolis to be
(E) establishing a mosque in the building and using the Acropolis as

We use Like for Noun,so I got B but OA is A

Please explain Why?
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by iamcste » Fri May 01, 2009 2:46 am
gmat740 wrote:The Parthenon was a church from 1204 until 1456, when Athens was taken by General Mohammed the Conqueror, the Turkish sultan, who established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as a fortress.
(A) who established a mosque in the building and used the Acropolis as
(B) who, establishing a mosque in the building, used the Acropolis like
(C) who, when he had established a mosque in the building, used the Acropolis like
(D) who had established a mosque in the building, using the Acropolis to be
(E) establishing a mosque in the building and using the Acropolis as

We use Like for Noun,so I got B but OA is A

Please explain Why?

Did you check B
Conqueror, the Turkish sultan, who , establishing a mosque

so, who is completely made redundant. who can be used as a restrictive as well as non resrticitve modifer. here, we need it as a restictive modifer..by putting in off in pair of commas, you are making it redudant..so statement is as good as "Conqueror, the Turkish sultan, establishing a mosque " Here the particple phrase makes no sense..
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by Jose Ferreira » Fri May 01, 2009 5:34 am
First, I am assuming the underlining in the original question ends before the words "a fortress," since none of the answer choices contain that phrase.

Answer A, the correct answer, uses correct parallelism.

...the Turkish sultan, who DID this and DID something else.
Two past tense verbs.

Additionally, we have the idiomatic discrepancy between "like" and "as." There are slight differences between the uses of these words, such as:

We can say, "Joe used the baseball bat as a weapon."
While the preferred version of this sentence with the word "like" would be, "Joe used the baseball bat like it was a weapon."

If we were to choose Answer B, I would prefer something like:
...the sultan, ..., who used the temple like someone might use a fortress.
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by rseeker2 » Fri Jun 05, 2009 3:56 pm
In the sentence

Joe used the baseball bat as a weapon

shouldn't 'as' introduce a clause (containing a subject and a verb)?

Because the latter part of our sentence has only a subject (weapon), is it not a phrase which needs to be introduced by 'like'?

Kindly help.
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