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by real2008 » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:29 am
Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet’s student and protégé when he was nineteen and, for a few years in the 1940’s, came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came

what is the prob with C?
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by Domnu » Sat Jun 06, 2009 12:15 pm
[spoiler]The idiom is "Coming as close as..." This narrows us down to A,B,C. But in choices B,C, it's awkward to say "anyone ever had" instead of "anyone had ever," so I would go with A.[/spoiler]
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by Mayur Sand » Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:30 pm
IMO (B) is correct whats the OA
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by Arsene Lupin » Sat Jun 06, 2009 10:52 pm
D & E are out because you need "as".

A & C are out because you need "been" to parallel "being".

So, I would go with "B" (which also have the correct verb tense)
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by rahulg83 » Sun Jun 07, 2009 8:19 am
IMO B is the best choice here, we need had been because some people already had achieved that feat so one action before the another
A- has come..we don't need present tense here
C- ever done..done what? out
D,E- wrong usage of idiom...correct is as...as...
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by real2008 » Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:27 am
Domnu wrote:[spoiler]The idiom is "Coming as close as..." This narrows us down to A,B,C. But in choices B,C, it's awkward to say "anyone ever had" instead of "anyone had ever," so I would go with A.[/spoiler]
oa is A. But still, i am not convinced with your explanation......
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by bsmed » Sun Jun 07, 2009 12:25 pm
came as close..... as .... had ever come

Answer is A because of the parallelism[/quote]
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by real2008 » Sun Jun 28, 2009 10:19 am
Anybody there??? Any further explanation please for the post>>>>.....
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by tanviet » Sun Jun 28, 2009 9:01 pm
C is correct. we need "had done " to balance with "come"
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by pranav » Mon Jun 29, 2009 1:47 am
A is the best choice.
Came as close to ..... as anyone has ever come.

B looks tempting because the question talks about 1940's and hence a past tense might be used. But "[i]came as close to ... as anyone ever had been " looks akward.[/i]
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by som_frodo » Mon Jun 29, 2009 2:32 am
I think option 'C' is the correct answer.
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