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Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   16 Feb 2012, 09:51
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Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore and think past racial segregation, so too are the new organizations such as R.O.A.R, Reach Out Against Racism promoting the same objectives and goals to our societies

A. Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore and think past racial segregation, so too

B. Martine Luther King motivated the public to explore and think past racial segregation, and in the same way

C. Just like in the case of Martin Luther King and his motivations to the public to explore and think past racial segregations, too

D. Similarly to Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore and think pask racial segregation, so too

E. Similar to Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore and think pask racial segregation, so too

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Re: Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   16 Feb 2012, 22:01
Chembeti - Which answer do you think is stronger than A? To me the others are very clearly not correct.
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Re: Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   17 Feb 2012, 04:24
Chembeti wrote:
nsspaz151 wrote:
Chembeti - Which answer do you think is stronger than A? To me the others are very clearly not correct.


somehow i got confused with E


E could have been correct if it used correct modifier

Similar to Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore and think pask racial
segregation, the new organizations such as R.O.A.R

but so too ??
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Re: Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   17 Feb 2012, 04:46
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Chembeti wrote:
nsspaz151 wrote:
Chembeti - Which answer do you think is stronger than A? To me the others are very clearly not correct.


somehow i got confused with E


E could have been correct if it used correct modifier

Similar to Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore and think pask racial
segregation, the new organizations such as R.O.A.R

but so too ??


Agreed. I understand 'similar' and 'so too' don;t go well.
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Re: Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   21 Feb 2012, 13:07
+1 for A

Just as ... so too = idiomatic
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Re: Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   21 Feb 2012, 19:33
+1 for A.

jumbotests.com does not look like a good source of practice problems. My humble opinion

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Re: Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   21 Feb 2012, 21:00
crick20002002 wrote:
+1 for A.

jumbotests.com does not look like a good source of practice problems. My humble opinion

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Agreed. I have already mentioned that JumboTests is not a good source in one of the posts.
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Re: Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   21 Feb 2012, 21:10
I think it's 'A'. Parallel construction and by method of elimination. None of the other choices are fitting well to be the answer choice. Please correct me if wrong.
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Re: Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   22 Feb 2012, 10:43
Just as requires so too

The other anwsers uses wrong idioms or are awkward.

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Re: Just as Martin Luther King motivated the public to explore [#permalink] New post   26 May 2016, 13:57
Correct idiom structure: Just as X, so too Y.
Correct answer A - 9 seconds :D
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