SC - Infinitive & Parallelism

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by karthikpandian19 » Tue May 29, 2012 12:00 am
Although quite powerful in his time, the 16th century Russian czar Ivan the Terrible seems to us as a remote and barely visible historical figure.

to us as a remote and barely visible historical figure
to us to be as a remote and barely visible figure of history
to us a remote and barely visible figure of history
to us a remote and barely visible historical figure
to us to be a remote and barely visible historical figure
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by vk_vinayak » Tue May 29, 2012 5:20 am
Correct Idiom: seems to be. E looks correct.
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by patanjali.purpose » Tue May 29, 2012 5:39 am
karthikpandian19 wrote:Although quite powerful in his time, the 16th century Russian czar Ivan the Terrible seems to us as a remote and barely visible historical figure.

to us as a remote and barely visible historical figure
to us to be as a remote and barely visible figure of history
to us a remote and barely visible figure of history
to us a remote and barely visible historical figure
to us to be a remote and barely visible historical figure
SEEMS AS - not correct idiom; drop A/B
SEEMS TO BE - indicate that is going to happen in future; Drop B/E

Historical Figure VS Figure of History

Just to test: REMOTE Historical Figure VS REMOTE Figure of History - I will prefer 1st one; IMO D (but will be glad to know the OE for [spoiler]C/D[/spoiler])

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by karthikpandian19 » Tue May 29, 2012 1:29 pm
Hi,

The OA is D as rightly explained.....

The OE will be like this for C & D:

C - Seems to is the correct idiom usage with present tense following it. But the meaning changes here to figure of history (meaning one of a figure illustrating history - no importance). Hence eliminate this option

D - Seems to is the correct idiom usage with present tense following it. The meaning of the original sentence is preserved


Other explanations for the other options are not included as you have explained those already.

patanjali.purpose wrote:
karthikpandian19 wrote:Although quite powerful in his time, the 16th century Russian czar Ivan the Terrible seems to us as a remote and barely visible historical figure.

to us as a remote and barely visible historical figure
to us to be as a remote and barely visible figure of history
to us a remote and barely visible figure of history
to us a remote and barely visible historical figure
to us to be a remote and barely visible historical figure
SEEMS AS - not correct idiom; drop A/B
SEEMS TO BE - indicate that is going to happen in future; Drop B/E

Historical Figure VS Figure of History

Just to test: REMOTE Historical Figure VS REMOTE Figure of History - I will prefer 1st one; IMO D (but will be glad to know the OE for [spoiler]C/D[/spoiler])
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by jainpiyushjain » Fri Dec 28, 2012 2:32 am
patanjali.purpose wrote:
karthikpandian19 wrote:Although quite powerful in his time, the 16th century Russian czar Ivan the Terrible seems to us as a remote and barely visible historical figure.

to us as a remote and barely visible historical figure
to us to be as a remote and barely visible figure of history
to us a remote and barely visible figure of history
to us a remote and barely visible historical figure
to us to be a remote and barely visible historical figure
SEEMS AS - not correct idiom; drop A/B
SEEMS TO BE - indicate that is going to h appen in future; Drop B/E

Historical Figure VS Figure of History

Just to test: REMOTE Historical Figure VS REMOTE Figure of History - I will prefer 1st one; IMO D (but will be glad to know the OE for [spoiler]C/D[/spoiler])
I am unable to find similar stand on seems as being unidiomatic. Can you please explain with other examples.

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by beatItWillYou » Sat Jan 12, 2013 8:39 pm
I still haven't figured out a satisfactory explanation for this one .
Can we have an experts opinion please !!

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