Thomas Eakins' powerful style and his choices of subject -the advances in modern surgery, the discipline of sport, the strains of individuals in tension with society or even with themselves- was as disturbing to his own time as it is compelling for ours.
A)
B) were as disturbing to his own time as they are
C) has been as disturbing in his own time as it was
D) had been as disturbing in his own time as it was
E) have been as disturbing in his own time as
Oa is b
I just didn't get the parallelism in as...as. I thought it had to be: was as disturbing... As compelling. Words can be places after signal parallelism words as is the case in the answer?
A)
B) were as disturbing to his own time as they are
C) has been as disturbing in his own time as it was
D) had been as disturbing in his own time as it was
E) have been as disturbing in his own time as
Oa is b
I just didn't get the parallelism in as...as. I thought it had to be: was as disturbing... As compelling. Words can be places after signal parallelism words as is the case in the answer?
