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Henry VIII changed from staunch defender to active opponent of the Church when Pope Clement VII barred his attempts to divorce Katherine of Aragon.
a) staunch defender to active opponent of the Church b) staunchly defending to active opposition to the Church c) staunch defender to actively opposing the Church d) staunch defender of the Church to actively opposing it e) being a staunch defender to an active opponent of the Church
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15 Aug 2016, 20:28
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My technique is to go directly to the other choices and look at the differences, and only look above when you have a specific criteria for what you're trying to find.
I would look at the elements of each answer choice as far as parallelism, and the poster above is correct.
staunch Defender is only parallel to active opponent. All the other choices have something goofy around active opponent like actively opposing or something all jacked up. Must compare like terms only.
Just from that it's possible to eliminate all the other choices aside from A.
On a side note, I don't believe that you should automatically eliminate anything that has being in it.
I think that that has really shifted in the GMAT over the past five or ten years. I do see right answers with the word being in them
Always work grammar first, then idioms, and then style.
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21 Oct 2016, 03:58
Henry VIII changed from staunch defender to active opponent of the Church when Pope Clement VII barred his attempts to divorce Katherine of Aragon.
Shouldn't the answer contain "a". I mean shouldn't it be Henry VIII changed from a staunch defender to an active opponent of the Churchfarrell Dyan Hehn
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25 Oct 2016, 12:13
katherinesaju9 wrote:
Henry VIII changed from staunch defender to active opponent of the Church when Pope Clement VII barred his attempts to divorce Katherine of Aragon.
Shouldn't the answer contain "a". I mean shouldn't it be Henry VIII changed from a staunch defender to an active opponent of the Churchfarrell Dyan Hehn
Had the same thought, but still went for A) because of idiom. Would be cool if someone could clarify, though.
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08 Jan 2017, 13:21
AK125 wrote:
katherinesaju9 wrote:
Henry VIII changed from staunch defender to active opponent of the Church when Pope Clement VII barred his attempts to divorce Katherine of Aragon.
Shouldn't the answer contain "a". I mean shouldn't it be Henry VIII changed from a staunch defender to an active opponent of the Churchfarrell Dyan Hehn
Had the same thought, but still went for A) because of idiom. Would be cool if someone could clarify, though.
Hi, staunch and active are a noun modifiers modifying defender and opponent , so the articles are not required.
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