Sentence Correction

Like Byron at Missolonghi, Jack London was slowly killed by the mistakes of the medical men who treated him.
A . Like Byron
B . Like Byron's death
C . Just as Byron died
D . Similar to Byron
E . As did Byron

IMO A.
Correct Comparison between Byron and Jack London.

Ans A...

Noun should be compared to noun.. not to phrase, clause or prepositional phrase....

IMO A

pzazz12 wrote:Like Byron at Missolonghi, Jack London was slowly killed by the mistakes of the medical men who treated him.
A . Like Byron
B . Like Byron's death
C . Just as Byron died
D . Similar to Byron
E . As did Byron

guys ,
if the sentence were to be modified as below , would it be grammatically correct? I m not questioning OA but just trying to understand AS

1.As did Byron,Jack London got killed by the mistakes of the medical men who treated him.
2.As was Byron,Jack London was slowly killed by the mistakes of the medical men who treated him.

Thank you

Onell wrote:

pzazz12 wrote:Like Byron at Missolonghi, Jack London was slowly killed by the mistakes of the medical men who treated him.
A . Like Byron
B . Like Byron's death
C . Just as Byron died
D . Similar to Byron
E . As did Byron

guys ,
if the sentence were to be modified as below , would it be grammatically correct? I m not questioning OA but just trying to understand AS

1.As did Byron,Jack London got killed by the mistakes of the medical men who treated him.
2.As was Byron,Jack London was slowly killed by the mistakes of the medical men who treated him.

Thank you

Byron did nothing in his killing, so we cannot use "did" here, also "was" is later used in the sentence so we cannot make double use of it.

Mote: I am no longer a Verbal Learner and never have been any Expert in it but still A is my answer and wait for an expert advice for your this query. Thanks for the PM.

It has to be A. Other choices have helping 'did' not parallel with helping verb 'was'

I agree as per this question the answer should be A
but i have a ques...
shouldn't 'as' be used to give example. byron is used as an example for the case of jack london...?
please help..thanks

[spoiler]IMO: A [/spoiler]But what's wrong with Option D?

turbo jet wrote:[spoiler]IMO: A [/spoiler]But what's wrong with Option D?

I think 'similar to' and 'like' are not different much in this case, but 'like' is used wider and simpler. We prefer simplest and best thing