Sc 1000 Q181

[ankit0uc]

181 Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet’s student and protégé when he was nineteen and, for a few years in the 1940’s, came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came

Please explain with correct ans
Thanks

[gettomanish]

Will go with B
"As anyone ever had been", in this "had" goes in line with the past happening, and "been" is the one that is closer to the sentence "came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso". Hence B

OA Please....

[nEiTy]

Originally Posted by ankit0uc

181 Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechet’s student and protégé when he was nineteen and, for a few years in the 1940’s, came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came

Please explain with correct ans
Thanks

my pick is (B)

this is a comparison and the non-underlined part contains "as" so the underlined part should contain "as".

we can safely omit (D) & (E)

now try to understand the intention of the statement, it wants to compare that to all those who has been close to that performance. it is not comparing Bob to someone who may have achieved that level after Bob( therefor we can't use option A)

now "had been " seems more idiomatic than "had done"

so i think the OA should be B.

Plz provide the correct answer.

[Kirri]

i will go with C

[samal]

Had come across this question before. See here for explanation.

http://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sent...n/18280-x.html (As X As ...)

[manuuuu]

We need the option to start with "as" to complement the idiom "as close..... as". And to complement "to being..." I think we need "come" to complement "came". Hence I choose A.

[desa]

correct ans is A..see 800Bob's explanation on the attached thread http://www.urch.com/forums/gmat-sent...n/18280-x.html (As X As ...)

[ankit0uc]

OA is A