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by vineetbatra » Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:14 am
Galileo was convinced that natural phenomena, as manifestations of the laws of physics, would appear the same to someone on the deck of a ship moving smoothly and uniformly through the water as a person standing on land.

(A) water as a
(B) water as to a
(C) water; just as it would to a
(D) water, as it would to the
(E) water; just as to the

Can someone explain why choice C creates a Fragment, can't we use would as the main verb here?
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by kamalsinghy » Tue Nov 17, 2009 6:26 am
hello vineet,

As we know that "just as it would..." is an independent clause because it is started after semicolon. But now the point here is "just as X so Y" is an idiomatic usage. Here "just as X" is placed but it's conjugated part is not placed, causing the sentence fragment.
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by vineetbatra » Tue Nov 17, 2009 7:33 am
Thanks, makes sense now.
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by nageswarkv » Tue Nov 17, 2009 8:35 am
what is official answer for this question, ?
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by vineetbatra » Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:00 am
OA is B
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by hitmewithgmat » Tue Nov 17, 2009 9:31 am
This question tests whether you know the idiom.

"the same to X as to Y"

Here, in this sentence,
...the same to "someone"(X)......as to "a person"(Y)... (X and Y are parallel, meaning If X is noun, then Y is also noun. If X is a gerund, then Y is also a gerund. If X is an adjective, Y is also an adjective."

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