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[prachich1987]

Michael Phelps is no less an exemplary figure in the realm of dedication and hard work.

(A) no less an exemplary figure in
(B) nonetheless an exemplary figure in
(C) nevertheless exemplary in
(D) not less exemplary a figure than
(E) an exemplary figure not less than

OA : no idea

[AIM GMAT]

IMO A .

As it sounds correct .

For D] and E] we cannot compare Micheal Phelps to realm of dedication and hard work .

Nonetheless & Nevertheless means "in spite of that" so the meaning changes .

[Brian@VeritasPrep]

None of these is correct - B or C have a chance it you add a modifier to the beginning to necessitate the use of a transition like "nevertheless", for example:

Despite some well-publicized brushes with drugs and alcohol, Michael Phelps is nevertheless exemplary...

But without that there isn't a rationale for using the transition, and in A "no less" needs to have a comparison attached to it. You're definitely correct that D and E create an improper comparison between Phelps and virtues.



Just because I've seen a lot of these recently, I'd urge everyone to be careful with the SC questions that you choose to practice from - for whatever reason early 2011 seems to have created a boom in the number of lackadaisically-written practice Sentence Correction questions that are now in circulation. For the sole purpose of practice with eliminating poor answer choices, I suppose it's not that bad, but be careful putting too much emphasis on from-out-of-nowhere practice questions - there are still plenty of good ones out there so I'd prioritize those.

[AIM GMAT]

Thanks a lot Brian , for your guidance , sometimes we become so engrossed in answering the question and eliminating weak answer choices that lose the track in our wrongdoing. Really needed to be corrected for our wrong approch .

[aspirant2011]

I would go with A because no less refers to singular, none can refer to both singular or plural and other choices looks weird........wats the OA?

[bblast]

I echo Brian's remarks, stay away from gmat club sc and cr(my opinion). However the quant at gmat club is superb