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by magical cook » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:05 pm
Hi,

although the tense in the text is simple past, the answer A) uses have+P.P.... it dose not need to match?


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
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by Cybermusings » Tue Apr 03, 2007 12:55 am
Are you sure the answer is A...I mean we can easily eliminate D, E and C...But why A....the tense sounds incorrect....
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by magical cook » Tue Apr 03, 2007 7:19 am
yes, the answer is correct (or at least it shows on 1000 sc as answer...)
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by RAGS » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:34 am
I think the ans is A
WE can eliminate B had been seems incorrect since past perfect needs an action it. Same for C
Did in D does not seem parallel to any thing given in the first part
Also the use of that does not parallel AS CLOSE ......which should have AS in the other part. So that eliminates D E.
Hence A
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by yalephd2007 » Sun Apr 13, 2008 4:33 pm
I will go with A, too.
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by vishubn » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:24 am
it is straight forward ! i got with A too

vishu
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by vishubn » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:24 am
its the degree of closeness one as come is wat is compared ! so i think ! come and came is just the proper comparison
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by mals24 » Sun Oct 26, 2008 5:28 am
Agree with vishubn

the sentence should read come as close....as anyone has ever come
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