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by satishchandra » Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:07 pm
In his eagerness to find a city worthy of Priam, the German archaeologist Schliemann
cut through Troy and uncovered a civilization a thousand years older as was the city
Homer's heroes knew.
(A) older as was the city Homer's heroes knew
(B) more ancient than the city known to Homer's heroes
(C) older than was the city known to Homer's heroes
(D) more ancient of a city than Homer's heroes knew
(E) older of a city than was the one known to Homer's heroes

Please Explain.
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by PradeepDubey » Fri Jan 06, 2012 10:48 pm
The comparison is between 'a civilization of a city' and the 'civilization known to the Homer's hero'. Option E appears correct to me. OA?
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by user123321 » Fri Jan 06, 2012 11:21 pm
satishchandra wrote:In his eagerness to find a city worthy of Priam, the German archaeologist Schliemann
cut through Troy and uncovered a civilization a thousand years older as was the city
Homer's heroes knew.
(A) older as was the city Homer's heroes knew
(B) more ancient than the city known to Homer's heroes
(C) older than was the city known to Homer's heroes
(D) more ancient of a city than Homer's heroes knew
(E) older of a city than was the one known to Homer's heroes

Please Explain.
IMO B?

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by sam2304 » Sat Jan 07, 2012 12:23 am
A D E - older as, more ancient of, older of are all wrong idioms

C - older than was - wrong should be followed by noun directly. B is better though it uses more ancient

IMO B.
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by e-GMAT » Wed Jan 11, 2012 9:00 am
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In his eagerness to find a city worthy of Priam, the German archaeologist Schliemann cut through Troy and uncovered a civilization a thousand years older as was the city Homer's heroes knew.

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Here the comparison is between the "a civilization" and "the city" that was known to Homer's heroes.

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1. The sentence uses the incorrect idiom. The correct idiom is "X more older than Y" and not "X more older as Y".
2. The logical comparison is between two nouns as discussed in the meaning analysis. But the way the sentence has been written, here X = "a civilization" (noun) and Y = "was the city" (verb + noun). The two entities are not grammatically parallel. Since what follows the marker should be logically and grammatically parallel to what precedes it, we just need the noun after the marker and not the verb.

POE:

(A) older as was the city Homer's heroes knew: Wrong as discussed.

(B) more ancient than the city known to Homer's heroes: Correct answer. The sentence uses the correct idiom and also the entities compared are grammatically parallel as well.

(C) older than was the city known to Homer's heroes: Wrong. Same parallelism error as in A.

(D) more ancient of a city than Homer's heroes knew: The comparison is not even proper here. X = "a civilization... more ancient of a city", Y = "Homer's heroes knew". Also "more ancient of a city" is awkward.

(E) older of a city than was the one known to Homer's heroes: Same awkward expression as in D. Same parallelism error as in A.

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1. In comparisons, the idiom must be worded correctly.
2. The entities compared must be logically as well grammatically parallel to each other.

The concepts tested in this sentence have been covered in e-gmat concepts:
1. Level 2 - Idioms - Comparison
2. Level 2 - Parallelism - Comparison
Hope this helps.
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by ArunangsuSahu » Wed Jan 11, 2012 1:18 pm
Clearly (B)

Explanation
(A)"older" needs to follow by "than"--INCORRECT
[color=green](B)CORRECT[/color]
(C)"was the City known to Homer's heroes"..Unnecessary passive voice--INCORRECT
(D)"of"--INCORRECT
(E)"of"--INCORRECT
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