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by mj41 » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:23 am
The athlete went from also-ran to local hero after scoring the decisive points in the championship game.

from also-ran to local hero
from being an also-ran to become a local hero
from also-ran to become a local hero
from what was also-ran status to that of local hero
from being an also-ran to local hero

OA is A
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by Pdgmat2010 » Thu Mar 25, 2010 4:57 am
could someone analyze this further?
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by lkm » Thu Mar 25, 2010 5:24 am
(A) is clear winner. Here confusion creates if we doesn't know the meaning of "Also-ran".

So, in shorter form, it can be rewrite as "The athlete become hero from zero (also-ran) after wining some games at championship"

So, from X to Y , IDIOM is correctly used in choice (A).
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by deepesh.gupta » Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:39 am
Can you please explain why B is not the correct?

In A it looks like 'also-ran' and 'local hero' are two places and the athelete traveled between them.

lkm wrote:(A) is clear winner. Here confusion creates if we doesn't know the meaning of "Also-ran".

So, in shorter form, it can be rewrite as "The athlete become hero from zero (also-ran) after wining some games at championship"

So, from X to Y , IDIOM is correctly used in choice (A).
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by lkm » Thu Mar 25, 2010 8:49 am
deepesh.gupta wrote:Can you please explain why B is not the correct?

In A it looks like 'also-ran' and 'local hero' are two places and the athelete traveled between them.
Did you check the meaning of 'also-ran'?

Also-ran = A contestant who loses the contest, loser (from wordweb)

So, here IDIOM used it "from X to Y"

Now, in this IDIOM, X and Y should be parallel.

In choice (A),

X = also-ran (Noun)
Y = a local hero (Noun)

X and Y maintain the parallelism as both are noun only.

Whereas in choice (B),

X = being (gerund, which again a noun formed from a verb)
Y = become (verb)

Breaks the parallelism, noun and verb ain't parallel to each other.

So, (B) is wrong.
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by akahuja143 » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:41 am
IMO A same for above reasons idiom from to and parallelism issues
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