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16 Jan 2022, 00:20
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Never again will sports fans suffer collective grief as much as they had the day that Joe DiMaggio died.
A) collective grief as much as they had
B) so much collective grief as
C) so much grief collectively than
D) as much collective grief as they did
E) as much grief collectively than
16 Jan 2022, 00:24
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OFFICIAL EXPLANATION
The correct idiom is AS . . . AS.
In a comparison question, if you see one as, start looking for another.
This idiom is frequently tested.
Correct: As X As Y
Wrong: So X as Y
Wrong: As X Than Y
Wrong: So X Than Y
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(On this last one, it is wrong unless you are looking at "so" as an intensifier and X is a comparative phrase such as "much taller."
Correct: One twin is so much taller than the other that most people do not realize that the two are twins.
• Meaning? Sports fans never suffered as much grief as they suffered the day that Joe DiMaggio died.
• Split #1 - comparison idiom AS ... AS
Options B, C, and E, respectively, incorrectly use so ... as, so ... than, and as ... than.
Eliminate B, C, and E.
• Split #2 - we need a past tense verb to match died
I suspect that quite a few of you will say that option A is incorrect because it uses past perfect.
In fact, I see that reason given in the thread.
Option A does not use past perfect.
You are correct that past perfect (as in had sufferED) would be incorrect; past perfect denotes the earlier of two past events, and sports fan suffered grief after DiMaggio died.
But option A is wrong because had is nonsensical and means nothing, not because option A uses past perfect.
Option A does not say had suffered.
Here is option A: Never again will sports fans suffer collective grief as much as they had the day that Joe DiMaggio died.
Option A does not use past perfect. At all.
Most of you know that in English we drop or omit words and that this construction is called ellipsis.
Whatever is omitted is then implied in the elided part.
But the word must actually be present in the sentence for you to omit and then imply it.
Past perfect would be had suffered.
But the word suffered is nowhere to be found in option A.
→ The word suffer exists. Not suffered.
→ If we say had, the only word we can "pick up" as the rest of the verb is suffer, this way: as much as they had suffer . . .
The word had in Option A does not mean and cannot mean had suffered.
Look at option A:
Never again will sports fans suffer collective grief as much as they had the day that Joe DiMaggio died.
IF past perfect were correct (and it is not), we would need either
(1) to state the whole verb, i.e., had suffered, or
(2) to use the word did, which could stand in for suffered.
If you want to learn about ellipsis, helping verbs, and the "universal" verb (do), you can read my post here.
The subjects might sound a bit scary or intimidating.
Don't worry. Read the question. Try the question. Read my explanation. Read the examples.
You will catch on, even if you must repeat this process many times.
Option A is nonsensical.
It requires the word did at the end ("as much as they did") in order to convey "as much as they suffered."
Eliminate A
By POE, the answer is D.
Option D uses the correct AS . . . AS idiom.
It also correctly deploys the words "as they did" to mean "as they suffered."
Did can stand in for almost any verb in English. (The post to which I linked above gives you the two verbs that did/do/does cannot substitute for.)
COMMENTS
RanonBanerjee , welcome to SC Butler.
We are glad to have you.
(All aspirants have a standing invitation to post on SC Butler.)
And DarkKnight800 , good to "see" you again.
Answers here are very good.
Nice work.
Quote:
The correct idiom is AS . . . AS.
In a comparison question, if you see one as, start looking for another.
This idiom is frequently tested.
Correct: As X As Y
Wrong: So X as Y
Wrong: As X Than Y
Wrong: So X Than Y
↓
(On this last one, it is wrong unless you are looking at "so" as an intensifier and X is a comparative phrase such as "much taller."
Correct: One twin is so much taller than the other that most people do not realize that the two are twins.
• Meaning? Sports fans never suffered as much grief as they suffered the day that Joe DiMaggio died.
• Split #1 - comparison idiom AS ... AS
Options B, C, and E, respectively, incorrectly use so ... as, so ... than, and as ... than.
Eliminate B, C, and E.
• Split #2 - we need a past tense verb to match died
I suspect that quite a few of you will say that option A is incorrect because it uses past perfect.
In fact, I see that reason given in the thread.
Option A does not use past perfect.
You are correct that past perfect (as in had sufferED) would be incorrect; past perfect denotes the earlier of two past events, and sports fan suffered grief after DiMaggio died.
But option A is wrong because had is nonsensical and means nothing, not because option A uses past perfect.
Option A does not say had suffered.
Here is option A: Never again will sports fans suffer collective grief as much as they had the day that Joe DiMaggio died.
Option A does not use past perfect. At all.
Most of you know that in English we drop or omit words and that this construction is called ellipsis.
Whatever is omitted is then implied in the elided part.
But the word must actually be present in the sentence for you to omit and then imply it.
Past perfect would be had suffered.
But the word suffered is nowhere to be found in option A.
→ The word suffer exists. Not suffered.
→ If we say had, the only word we can "pick up" as the rest of the verb is suffer, this way: as much as they had suffer . . .
The word had in Option A does not mean and cannot mean had suffered.
Look at option A:
Never again will sports fans suffer collective grief as much as they had the day that Joe DiMaggio died.
IF past perfect were correct (and it is not), we would need either
(1) to state the whole verb, i.e., had suffered, or
(2) to use the word did, which could stand in for suffered.
If you want to learn about ellipsis, helping verbs, and the "universal" verb (do), you can read my post here.
The subjects might sound a bit scary or intimidating.
Don't worry. Read the question. Try the question. Read my explanation. Read the examples.
You will catch on, even if you must repeat this process many times.
Option A is nonsensical.
It requires the word did at the end ("as much as they did") in order to convey "as much as they suffered."
Eliminate A
By POE, the answer is D.
Option D uses the correct AS . . . AS idiom.
It also correctly deploys the words "as they did" to mean "as they suffered."
Did can stand in for almost any verb in English. (The post to which I linked above gives you the two verbs that did/do/does cannot substitute for.)
COMMENTS
RanonBanerjee , welcome to SC Butler.
We are glad to have you.
(All aspirants have a standing invitation to post on SC Butler.)
And DarkKnight800 , good to "see" you again.
Answers here are very good.
Nice work.
16 Jan 2022, 02:06
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My answer is (D). It took me 00:51.
"the day that Joe DiMaggio died" should be "the day when Joe DiMaggio died".
(A) as much as they had = as much as they had suffered the day that Joe DiMaggio died.
It does not make sense to suggest that fans' gravest suffering occurred before the death of Joe DiMaggio.
(B) should use "as ... as" rather than 'so...as"
(C) should use "as ... as" instead of 'so...than"
(E) should use "as ... as" as opposed to 'as...than"
"the day that Joe DiMaggio died" should be "the day when Joe DiMaggio died".
(A) as much as they had = as much as they had suffered the day that Joe DiMaggio died.
It does not make sense to suggest that fans' gravest suffering occurred before the death of Joe DiMaggio.
(B) should use "as ... as" rather than 'so...as"
(C) should use "as ... as" instead of 'so...than"
(E) should use "as ... as" as opposed to 'as...than"
