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by abhasjha » Fri Aug 22, 2014 9:19 am
In no other historical sighting did Halley's comet cause such a worldwide sensation as did its return in 1910-1911.

A. did its return in 1910-1911

B. had its 1910-1911 return

C. in its return of 1910-1911

D. its return of 1910-1911 did

E. its return in 1910-1911
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by [email protected] » Fri Aug 22, 2014 3:20 pm
HI abhasjha,

This SC is interesting because most of the wrong answers are written "how people talk", which is to say that they're wrong for grammatical reasons that people do not think about when speaking.

There really is just one rule that matters here: Parallelism.

1) Parallelism: The sentence opens with "IN no other historical sighting...."; the second part of the sentence offers a comparison with the first part, so we need to use Parallel format. Only one answer is written in this way....

Final Answer: [spoiler]C
IN no other historical sighting....
as IN its return[/spoiler]

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by GMATGuruNY » Sat Aug 23, 2014 2:21 am
abhasjha wrote:In no other historical sighting did Halley's comet cause such a worldwide sensation as did its return in 1910-1911.

A. did its return in 1910-1911

B. had its 1910-1911 return

C. in its return of 1910-1911

D. its return of 1910-1911 did

E. its return in 1910-1911
APPLES must be compared to APPLES.

A: In no other historical sighting DID HALLEY'S COMET CAUSE...as DID ITS RETURN [cause].
B: In no other historical sighting DID HALLEY'S COMET CAUSE...as HAD ITS RETURN [caused].
D: In no other historical sighting DID HALLEY'S COMET CAUSE...as ITS RETURN DID.
E: In no other historical sighting DID HALLEY'S COMET CAUSE...as ITS RETURN [caused].

The comparisons above are illogical.
What HALLEY'S COMET did cannot be compared to what ITS RETURN did.
Eliminate A, B, D and E.

The correct answer is C.

ELLIPSIS is the omission of words whose presence is understood.
Many comparisons employ ellipsis.
Generally, when the second clause of a comparison lacks a subject and a verb, the implied subject and verb are those of the first clause.
The OA implies the following comparison:
In no other historical sighting DID HALLEY'S COMET CAUSE...as [did HALLEY'S COMET cause] in its return of 1910-1911.
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