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The Supreme Court’s concern with legitimacy is not for the sake of the [#permalink] New post   28 Oct 2019, 07:07
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The Supreme Court’s concern with legitimacy is not for the sake of the court but the nation to which it is responsible.

(A) but the nation to which it is responsible
(B) but for the sake of the nation to which it is responsible
(C) so much as the nation it is responsible to
(D) as the nation it is responsible to
(E) but the nation
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Re: The Supreme Court’s concern with legitimacy is not for the sake of the [#permalink] New post   28 Oct 2019, 07:13
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The Supreme Court’s concern with legitimacy is not for the sake of the court but the nation to which it is responsible.

the sentence is testing two part parallelism using the idiom not X but Y

the sentence can either follow the structure "for not X but Y" or "not for X but for Y"; to maintain parallelism

only option B maintains the correct parallelism!!

all the other options do not maintain the correct parallelism

therefore option B is correct!
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The Supreme Court’s concern with legitimacy is not for the sake of the [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 29 Oct 2019, 13:30
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The sentence tests the once inside and twice outside rule applied to the idiom. It is correct to use either
- not for X but for Y (for is used twice inside the idiom), OR
- for not X but Y (for is used once outside the idiom).

Option (B) is correct.

Originally posted by mykrasovski on 29 Oct 2019, 06:11.
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Re: The Supreme Court’s concern with legitimacy is not for the sake of the [#permalink] New post   29 Oct 2019, 07:59
The answer should be E.

I think all the options except E use "it" to refer to the "Supreme Court's concern" rather than the Supreme Court.
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