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by GmatKiss » Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:12 pm
Real similar to a Hollywood movie set with nothing behind the building fronts, the country's apparent new-found affluence masks a very different reality: most citizens are not living at all well.

(A) Real similar to
(B) Much as if it was
(C) As though
(D) Like
(E) Just as

Which is better D/E and why?
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by cans » Sat Sep 24, 2011 12:38 pm
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by GmatKiss » Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:05 pm
cans wrote:like
Madame Cans, can you explain?
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by cyrwr1 » Sat Sep 24, 2011 1:56 pm
I pick D

to compare nouns in the sentence and E requires the structure of " Just as ...., so ...."
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by aspirant2011 » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:33 pm
Yup Like is better as explained by cyrwr1........

@Cans: please make a habit of discussing the choices rather than just posting the answer. Forum has been made for healthy discussion.........
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by 1947 » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:40 pm
but what sort of construction will this be ?
Like to .........

I am not able to understand this question......pls help..
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by aspirant2011 » Sat Sep 24, 2011 9:43 pm
1947 wrote:but what sort of construction will this be ?
Like to .........

I am not able to understand this question......pls help..
I know the construction is awkward but there is not a better choice than this......

Also, this is a 1000 SC question which experts claim to be non authentic. So, i wont recommend you to worry about the question much.
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by cyrwr1 » Sun Sep 25, 2011 7:28 am
the original poster meant to underline "real similar to" so the Original should look like:
_____ a Hollywood..... well.

Choice D is the best option to compare the nouns(movie set and affluence)
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by rohit_gmat » Sun Sep 25, 2011 7:53 am
GmatKiss wrote:Real similar to a Hollywood movie set with nothing behind the building fronts, the country's apparent new-found affluence masks a very different reality: most citizens are not living at all well.

(A) Real similar to
(B) Much as if it was
(C) As though
(D) Like
(E) Just as

Which is better D/E and why?
We are comparing a "a country's affluence" with a "Hollywood movie set"... which are things & not actions... so it shud be "like" and not "as".. use "as" when you wanna compare actions...
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by Jim@Grockit » Sun Sep 25, 2011 5:50 pm
"As" is a conjunction here and would create the expectation of parallelism (and as somebody else said, a comparison of verbs), which the rest of the sentence does not provide.
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