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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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.........
@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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but what sort of construction will this be ?
Like to .........
I am not able to understand this question......pls help..
Like to .........
I am not able to understand this question......pls help..
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I know the construction is awkward but there is not a better choice than this......1947 wrote:but what sort of construction will this be ?
Like to .........
I am not able to understand this question......pls help..
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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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...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?
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"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.
