Like John McPhees works

[blaster]

Like John McPhees works, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works an interesting and complete world out of hundreds of tiny details about a seemingly uninteresting subject.

A. Like John McPhees works, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works

B. Like John McPhee, Ann Beatties works painstakingly assemble

C. Like John McPhee, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works

D. Just as John McPhees, so Ann Beatties works painstakingly assemble

E. Just as John McPhee, Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles in her works


i checked answer correctly, but can't justify the incorrectness of the option E. Why Just as can't be used there?

[Nemesis09]

Hi,

IMO C

OA Please..

[Ashley@VeritasPrep]

We could get away with "just as" if we were to say "Just as John McPhee does, Ann Beattie painstakingly..." The thing is, you'd need that "does" if you wanted to use "just as," so that we could be comparing that whole clause ("John McPhee does") to the other whole clause ("Ann Beattie painstakingly assembles...").

If we use "like," we can get away with just comparing John McPhee to Ann Beattie, because it would be legitimate for me to say "John McPhee is like Ann Beattie." But it would not be legitimate for me to say "John McPhee is just as Ann Beattie." I'd have to say "John McPhee does just as Ann Beattie does."

[boazkhan]

I believe the answer is C?