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by grandh01 » Tue Aug 21, 2012 8:09 pm
Like John McPhee's works, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works an
interesting and complete world out of hundreds of tiny details about a seemingly
uninteresting subject.
(A) Like John McPhee's works, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works
(B) Like John McPhee, Ann Beattie's works painstakingly assemble
(C) Like John McPhee, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works
(D) Just as John McPhee's, so Ann Beattie's works painstakingly assemble
(E) Just as John McPhee, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works

OA is C
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by avik.ch » Tue Aug 21, 2012 11:49 pm
grandh01 wrote:Like John McPhee's works, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works an
interesting and complete world out of hundreds of tiny details about a seemingly
uninteresting subject.
(A) Like John McPhee's works, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works
(B) Like John McPhee, Ann Beattie's works painstakingly assemble
(C) Like John McPhee, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works
(D) Just as John McPhee's, so Ann Beattie's works painstakingly assemble
(E) Just as John McPhee, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works

OA is C
Comparison should be logical....

Eliminate D and E because "just as" is incorrect here.

A - here JM is an adjective, the noun is work - so the comparison is between work and AB - incorrect

B - Similar error like B

C - correct, a person is compared with a person.

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