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Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, [#permalink] New post   09 Aug 2012, 22:40
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Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, wrote of her concern that she had created in her title character a
young lady so outspoken as to repel any readers expecting the sweet-natured heroine typical of English novels.

A. so outspoken as to repel
B. so outspoken she would have repelled
C. so outspoken that she would be repelling
D. outspoken enough that she may repel
E. outspoken enough as for repelling
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Re: Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, [#permalink] New post   09 Aug 2012, 23:26
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Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, wrote of her concern that she had created in her title character a
young lady so outspoken as to repel any readers expecting the sweet-natured heroine typical of English novels.

A. so outspoken as to repel
hold
B. so outspoken she would have repelled
wrong tense;so outspoken and she would.... has no connectors/pronoun in between -incorrect
C. so outspoken that she would be repelling
would be repelling is wrong tense as per the intended meaning
D. outspoken enough that she may repel
after enough the sentence should have followed "to", so incorrect
E. outspoken enough as for repelling
verb+ing is incorrectly used-incorrect

(A) wins
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Re: Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, [#permalink] New post   09 Aug 2012, 23:31
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So adjective as to is the correct idiom and concise . So A is correct;
So that she would be repelling is verbose; so C isn’t contending
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Re: Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, [#permalink] New post   10 Aug 2012, 00:09
daagh wrote:
So adjective as to is the correct idiom and concise . So A is correct;
So that she would be repelling is verbose; so C isn’t contending


Very correctly said. So...as to... is the idiom used in it.
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Re: Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, [#permalink] New post   11 Aug 2012, 07:12
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The idiom is 'so....as.' As long as you know that you can quickly get to answer (A). Once you've identified the correct idiom, do not spend time parsing the other choices if none have the correct idiom.
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Re: Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, [#permalink] New post   11 Aug 2012, 09:50
D & E are out.
For me its between A & C. So ...as to or So X, that Y.
In C we have a pronoun error. It is not clear she refers to young lady or Jane Austen.
B has idiom error.
So Answer is A.
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Re: Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, [#permalink] New post   25 Sep 2015, 19:38
thevenus wrote:
Jane Austen, shortly after she completed the book Emma, wrote of her concern that she had created in her title character a
young lady so outspoken as to repel any readers expecting the sweet-natured heroine typical of English novels.

A. so outspoken as to repel
hold
B. so outspoken she would have repelled
wrong tense;so outspoken and she would.... has no connectors/pronoun in between -incorrect
C. so outspoken that she would be repelling
would be repelling is wrong tense as per the intended meaning
D. outspoken enough that she may repel
after enough the sentence should have followed "to", so incorrect
E. outspoken enough as for repelling
verb+ing is incorrectly used-incorrect

(A) wins



why would in C is wrong

pls, help. Thank you
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