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In the Renaissance, painters were so impressed with Da Vinci that they ignored their own training and designate as a masterpiece anything he painted.

A. were so impressed with Da Vinci that they ignored
B. were impressed with Da Vinci to such an extent that they were to ignore
C. were so impressed with Da Vinci as to ignore
D. were so impressed with Da Vinci that they had to ignore
E. were as impressed with Da Vinci as to ignore


Please help me out on explaining this one... it may be something I'm missing here but I was spinning my wheels. Made me doubt my knowledge of basic SC rules :P

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C. were so impressed with Da Vinci as to ignore

Required "so impressed" for emphasis. A, C and D survive.

Of these the tense of the ||ism of the actions of the renaissance painters is "ignore and designate"...

Finally "so X as to Y" idiom...


In the Renaissance, painters were so impressed with Da Vinci as to ignore their own training and designate as a masterpiece anything he painted.

Answer: C
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It seems that C is the early favorite... unfortunately, it's not the correct answer... I'll allow for more discussion before posting the OA.

I also picked C as my initial choice... this question is from Cambridge.
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Answer should be 'B'


So as ... to (which means "in order to") do not make sense for this sentence
C actually means "they were impressed in order to ignore their own training".
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I think the answer is D.

I picked it because the idiom So X that Y is correct too. Second reason was that when you read the remaining part of the sentence we need something that makes sense that in order to designate his paintings as a masterpiece, the painters had to ignore their training.

In the Renaissance, painters were so impressed with Da Vinci that they ignored their own training and designate as a masterpiece anything he painted.

So the correct one D looks right here:

were so impressed with Da Vinci that they had to ignore

I hope it helps.
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I will go with C...

key here is to maintain the tense...

designate ....ignore...
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if C is not the answer ..D seems the second choice .. what's the OA boss??
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...were so impressed with X, that they did Y... is idiomatic

(A) original sentence reads fine.

Ex: I was so impressed with Dahiya's GMAT performance that I decided to study harder.
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Matt .. "so x that y" is fine ..but how would you maintain the paralleism between "ignored" and "designate ... this is something that doesn't seem plausible in the original sentence...
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In the Renaissance, painters were so impressed with Da Vinci Updated on: 26 Aug 2006, 03:57
Originally posted by GMATT73 on 26 Aug 2006, 03:14.
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Matt .. "so x that y" is fine ..but how would you maintain the paralleism between "ignored" and "designate ... this is something that doesn't seem plausible in the original sentence...
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Misread designate for designated. :beat

Stupid error.

(C)
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jjhko .. we have had enough of discussion .. please post the OA ... what's Oa if not C..
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It seems that C is the early favorite... unfortunately, it's not the correct answer... I'll allow for more discussion before posting the OA.

I also picked C as my initial choice... this question is from Cambridge.
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I'm sorry guys, C is in fact the OA. I must have been confused with another question... :oops:
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