Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum, one of only two women in the U.S.

I'll go with C.

even E looks correct at first glance, but then it fails to covey the meaning correctly!!

C is the best parallelism "so much for more .... as for more"

IMO A,

Can some please share the OA and explain in detail which options are wrong?

I like C for parallelism, but I'm going to have to go with A for meaning

I feel that all of the other choices change the meaning from modern republican women to just modern republicans

HI Babzsn84
A has serious II-ism issue and itz an ambiguous one..
not so much wish for more is awkward..
hope it helps..

469 Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum, one of only two women in the U.S. Senate in 1992, said she did not so much wish for more women senators but more moderate Republican ones.
A did not so much wish for more women senators but more moderate Republican ones
No Parallelism :for more senators but for....
B wished not so much for more senators who were women than moderate Republicans
wished not so much
C did not wish so much for more women senators as for more moderate Republicans
rigt answr
D did not wish for more women senators so much as moderate Republicans
No Parallism
E wished for more senators who are moderate Republicans than women
wished

Kansas Republican Nancy Kassebaum, one of only two women in the U.S. Senate in 1992, said she did not so much wish for more women senators but more moderate Republican ones.
A did not so much wish for more women senators but more moderate Republican ones
B wished not so much for more senators who were women than moderate Republicans
C did not wish so much for more women senators as for more moderate Republicans
D did not wish for more women senators so much as moderate Republicans
E wished for more senators who are moderate Republicans than women

IS THE OA C??mikemcgarry

Added the OA. Yes, the correct answer is C.

WHY D INCORRECT ???? ONLY BECAUSE OF PARALLELISM ?

Idioms....really? Why so much nuance?

So much...as...

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A did not so much wish for more women senators but more moderate Republican ones (incorrect: parallelism and Idiomatic error)
The correct idiom is so much
x as y but option A seems following so much x but y. second after but it is more moderate …. that does not have any parallel precedent.

B wished not so much for more senators who were women than moderate Republicans incorrect: Parallelism and Idiomatic error)
Not x but y hence not so much but something should be correct. Idiomatic error so much x than Y

C did not wish so much for more women senators as for more moderate Republicans (correct)
So much x as y: so much for as for following the correct idiomatic pattern

D did not wish for more women senators so much as moderate Republicans (incorrect: idiom
More x than y. more women than Republican is an incorrect expression. C refines the D with the correct idiomatic expression

E wished for more senators who are moderate Republicans than women (incorrect: parallelism error)
More x than y, here more senators than women are not correct entities.