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by GmatKiss » Sat May 12, 2012 11:44 am
Never again will sports fans suffer collective grief as much as they had the day that Joe DiMagio died.

a)

b)so much collective grief as

c) so much grief collectively than

d) as much collective grief as they did

e) as much grief collectively than

IMO: D
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by ice_rush » Sat May 12, 2012 11:52 am
(D) seems to be fine.

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by GmatKiss » Sat May 12, 2012 11:57 am
ice_rush wrote:(D) seems to be fine.
Reasoning??

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by thestartupguy » Sun May 13, 2012 9:38 am
Pls use spoilers for the answers

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by Bill@VeritasPrep » Sun May 13, 2012 11:50 am
a) past perfect is incorrect; there's not a sequence of past events.

b) "so much as" is unidiomatic, and we need a verb in the second half of the comparison

c) "so much than" is unidiomatic, and we need a verb in the second half of the comparison

d) "as much as" is correct, and we have the simple past "did" for a single past event

e) "as much than" is unidiomatic, and we need a verb in the second half of the comparison.
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by agarwalva » Sun May 13, 2012 1:06 pm
use spoilers please

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