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by rockeyb » Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:50 pm
20. Some historians of science have argued that science moves forward not so much because of the insights of great thinkers but because of more mundane developments, such as improved tools and technologies.

(A) because of the insights of great thinkers but because of

(B) because of the insights of great thinkers as the result of

(C) because of the insights of great thinkers as because of

(D) through the insights of great thinkers but through

(E) through the insights of great thinkers but result from


As always please explain.

[spoiler]Ans : C.[/spoiler]
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by papgust » Tue Dec 01, 2009 10:06 pm
C must be right because of the parallelism "Not so much.. as..". Also when "because of" is inserted in between the idiom, that should also be parallel. "Not so much because of ... as because of..."

Other choice do not have any such parallelism.
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