Hi All,
Patience Lovell Wright, whose traveling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tuscan’s work by 30 year, became
well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.
The key to get to the right answer is to understand the meaning of the sentence. This sentence is about Patience Lovell Wright who travelling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tuscan’s work by 30 years. Wright became well known for two reasons:
1. For her eccentric personality.
2. For her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures.
The entities following both the “as” must be parallel to each other.
POE:(
A) well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.:
Incorrect for the reason discussed above.
(B) well known as much for having an eccentric personality as for skillful wax renderings of popular public figures.
Incorrect. Again the entities following “as” are not parallel. We need something parallel “having” after the second “as”.
(C) well known as much because of her eccentric personality as she was for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures.
Incorrect. Again, the entities following the two “as” are nit parallel.
(D) as well known for having an eccentric personality as having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.
Incorrect. “for having” after first “as” in not parallel to “having” after the second “as”.
(E) as well known for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures.
Correct. “for her…” is parallel to “for her skillful…”.
1. In a list, the entity following the first marker should be parallel to the entity following the second marker.
2. We should use comparative degree (much) only when we are comparing two entities.
Thanks.
Shraddha
As per the explanation "as" is the parallelism marker. Since it is a closed marker, doesn't it make the adjective "well known" exclusive to the first entity, introducing a parallelism error?