Tame Gazelle

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Tame Gazelle

by real2008 » Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:07 am
Originally published in 1950, Some Tame Gazelle was Barbara Pym's first novel, but it does not read like an apprentice work.

1. does not read like an apprentice work
2. seems not to read as an apprentice work
3. does not seem to read as an apprentice work would
4. does not read like an apprentice work does
5. reads unlike an apprentice work
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by riteshbindal » Sun Aug 16, 2009 1:59 am
C IMO. OA plz.

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by real2008 » Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:26 am
i too thought C. but oa is A

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by riteshbindal » Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:28 am
real2008 wrote:i too thought C. but oa is A
Thanks for the OA. Do you have the official explanation too?

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by real2008 » Sun Aug 16, 2009 2:48 am
no.

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by niraj_a » Sun Aug 16, 2009 4:14 am
A is good people.

the trick here is to realize that the novel is being compared to an apprentice work. the apprentice work will not read itself or anything else so any answer choices with 'as' are wrong. i dropped E even though it was grammatically similar to A based on gut instinct.

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