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Like Auden, the language of James Merrill is chatty, arch, and conversational—given to complex syntactic flights as well as to prosaic free-verse strolls. (A) Like Auden, the language of James Merrill (B) Like Auden, James Merrill’s language (C) Like Auden’s, James Merrill’s language (D) As with Auden, James Merrill’s language (E) As is Auden’s the language of James Merrill
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Originally posted by eyunni on 11 Dec 2007, 09:43.
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11 Dec 2007, 10:39
Even if Auden is a language, the sentence will still be weird.
For example:
Like Spanish, French also has nouns in the masculine and feminine form.
I don't think you would say:
Like Spanish, Bill Clinton's French also has nouns in the masculine and feminine form.
or
Like Spanish, the language of Bill Clinton also has nouns in the masculine and feminine form.
It's just weird.
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eyunni wrote: Like Auden, the language of James Merrill is chatty, arch, and conversational—given to complex syntactic flights as well as to prosaic free-verse strolls.
(A) Like Auden, the language of James Merrill
(B) Like Auden, James Merrill’s language
(C) Like Auden’s, James Merrill’s language
(D) As with Auden, James Merrill’s language
(E) As is Auden’s the language of James Merrill
My question here is: Why can't Auden be a language? How do you know that Auden is not a language?
I think Auden is a person here. Since the sentence is comparing the person's language (style of speaking), namely James Merrill's, to that of another who must also be a person, namely Auden. C should be correct. Like Auden's [language] is compared to James Merrill's language.
A is incorrect as one can't compare a person to another person's language.
B. incorrect for the same reason as above
D. Like is needed to compare people or things
E. Incorrect.
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eileen1017 wrote: Even if Auden is a language, the sentence will still be weird.
For example:
Like Spanish, French also has nouns in the masculine and feminine form.
I don't think you would say:
Like Spanish, Bill Clinton's French also has nouns in the masculine and feminine form.
or
Like Spanish, the language of Bill Clinton also has nouns in the masculine and feminine form.
It's just weird.
Actually, I think that the comparison in your second example is just fine...
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eyunni wrote: Like Auden, the language of James Merrill is chatty, arch, and conversational—given to complex syntactic flights as well as to prosaic free-verse strolls.
(A) Like Auden, the language of James Merrill
(B) Like Auden, James Merrill’s language
(C) Like Auden’s, James Merrill’s language
(D) As with Auden, James Merrill’s language
(E) As is Auden’s the language of James Merrill
My question here is: Why can't Auden be a language? How do you know that Auden is not a language?
To answer your question, I guess you just have to go along with logic.
Choice's C and E mention 'Auden's' --> I think this construction (if Auden were a language) would be pretty strange even for the GMAT 
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Why can't it be E? I thought we were not supposed to use 'Like', so I avoided C. "As is Auden's, the language of James Merrill" sounds fine to me.
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hetalcs wrote: Why can't it be E? I thought we were not supposed to use 'Like', so I avoided C. "As is Auden's, the language of James Merrill" sounds fine to me. "Like" is fine as a comparison in this case - the author is saying that Merril's language is similar to Auden's. http://www.grammar-quizzes.com/like-as.html
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C is correct for comparing noun to noun.
Auden's [language] to James Merrill's language.
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GK_Gmat wrote: eyunni wrote: My question here is: Why can't Auden be a language? How do you know that Auden is not a language? To answer your question, I guess you just have to go along with logic. Choice's C and E mention 'Auden's' --> I think this construction (if Auden were a language) would be pretty strange even for the GMAT well I hope you did not write just for sake of it- suppose for a moment Auden is a language then do you see any || comparison in any of the options. I mean what are you trying to say if Auden is a language- like a language, a language of .....(what is it ? does it conveys better meaning than consider Auden a person ?). try putting other options as well into equation you will realize the issue better!
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eyunni wrote: Like Auden, the language of James Merrill is chatty, arch, and conversational—given to complex syntactic flights as well as to prosaic free-verse strolls. (A) Like Auden, the language of James Merrill (B) Like Auden, James Merrill’s language (C) Like Auden’s, James Merrill’s language (D) As with Auden, James Merrill’s language (E) As is Auden’s the language of James Merrill My question here is: Why can't Auden be a language? How do you know that Auden is not a language? OA: (A) ==> "Auden" is compared to " the language of " and that's not correct (B) ==> "Auden" is compared to " the language " and that's not correct (C) ==> Correct answer (D) ==> As needs a clause / so (D) is not correct (+ a // error ) (E) ==> meaning !!
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04 Mar 2014, 21:39
IMO C.
We're comparing the languages (Nouns) of two persons, and hence we have to use 'Like/Unlike'.
Only C has the correct comparison.
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At issue is a comparison of Auden's language with Merill's language. Only C, the best choice, uses the elliptical like Auden's ( language being understood), to compare Auden's language with Merill's language. A, B, and D compare Auden (the person) with Merill's language. Choice E is awkward and unidiomatic.
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Parallel construction in C is correct
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Hi eyunni, Thank you for your question. After looking over each answer quickly, there are a couple things that jump out to me: 1. the language of James Merrill / James Merril's language 2. the beginning of each answer: Like Auden / Like Auden's / As with Auden / As is Auden's Let's start with #1 on the list, since it might narrow down our answers a bit. If you were to say "the language of James Merrill," a reader may misread this to say that there is a language spoken ONLY by James Merrill, or that James Merrill is a LOCATION where people speak a certain language. To better show that we're talking about possession, let's stick with only the answers that clearly show possession by saying "James Merrill's language." Thus, we can rule out answers A & E. Now that we've narrowed it down to answers B, C, & D, let's look at #2 on the list - how each answer begins. To find the correct answer, we need to find the answer that uses parallel structure, in particular with each author's name: (B) Like Auden, James Merrill’s language (WRONG = not parallel) (C) Like Auden’s, James Merrill’s language (CORRECT = parallel) (D) As with Auden, James Merrill’s language (WRONG = not parallel) As you can see, answer B is correct because it shows proper possession and uses parallel structure.
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Saii wrote: official answer
At issue is a comparison of Auden's language with Merill's language. Only C, the best choice, uses the elliptical like Auden's ( language being understood), to compare Auden's language with Merill's language. A, B, and D compare Auden (the person) with Merill's language. Choice E is awkward and unidiomatic. how and where you find such Official explanation?
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skidstorm wrote: Saii wrote: official answer
At issue is a comparison of Auden's language with Merill's language. Only C, the best choice, uses the elliptical like Auden's ( language being understood), to compare Auden's language with Merill's language. A, B, and D compare Auden (the person) with Merill's language. Choice E is awkward and unidiomatic. how and where you find such Official explanation? , please see the tags at the top of this question. The question comes from the Official Guide, Verbal Review (probably second edition - I have no way to check). That same official answer is written, in reference to "SC 477/1,000" HERE. Please also take a look HERE. Hope that helps.
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generis wrote: skidstorm wrote: Saii wrote: official answer
At issue is a comparison of Auden's language with Merill's language. Only C, the best choice, uses the elliptical like Auden's ( language being understood), to compare Auden's language with Merill's language. A, B, and D compare Auden (the person) with Merill's language. Choice E is awkward and unidiomatic. how and where you find such Official explanation? , please see the tags at the top of this question. The question comes from the Official Guide, Verbal Review (probably second edition - I have no way to check). That same official answer is written, in reference to "SC 477/1,000" HERE. Please also take a look HERE. Hope that helps. I lookup this question by using search feature, and the question should belong to gmat paper test, this is why I do not know how you can have the OE (official explanation) My laptop screen does not contain the source at the head of the page. Also, I do not know how to find the explanation.
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I lookup this question by using search feature, and the question should belong to gmat paper test, this is why I do not know how you can have the OE (official explanation)
My laptop screen does not contain the source at the head of the page. Also, I do not know how to find the explanation.
Attachment: Like Auden screenshot tags.PNG skidstormAs I understand the issue, paper test questions do not have OG explanations. See the co-founder of this site, bb , who reviews paper-based tests and explains many details HERE. I've attached a screenshot of the tags, above. They are circled in red. This question is very old. The alleged sources conflict: paper test (see above)? OG Verbal Review (see above)? SC 1000 series (see below) Attachment: screenshot for SC 1000 questions.PNG I will see what I can do to sort out the matter. It might take some time. In the meantime -- although the explanation may not be official, it is correct. Cryptic, but correct. Do you have doubts about the analysis with which I might help you?
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