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by GmatKiss » Sat Sep 17, 2011 12:14 pm
According to his own account, Frederic-Auguste Bartholdi, the sculptor of the Statue of Liberty, modeled the face of the statue like his mother's and the body like his wife's.

(A) modeled the face of the statue like his mother's and the body like his wife's
(B) modeled the face of the statue after that of his mother and the body after that of his wife

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by cans » Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:08 pm
A) is concise. like can be used as we mean similar to...
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by ntamhane » Sat Sep 17, 2011 9:08 pm
IMO - A
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by sl750 » Sat Sep 17, 2011 11:29 pm
B

In A, like is placed before the possessive his mother's

Moreover the idiomatic usage is, modelled after x
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by GmatKiss » Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:39 am
OA seems to be B

https://www.beatthegmat.com/statue-of-li ... 87712.html

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by gunjan1208 » Mon Sep 19, 2011 12:42 am
Not even bat an eyelid: Its idiom usage: Modeled after.
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