Taulark1 wrote:
in option B , isn't 'as' used to compare actions? , in that case why are we checking for the noun comparison?
egmatHey
Taulark1How are you? How's your prep coming along?
Happy to help you with this!
B: Just as Darwin had a fruitful voyage on the Beagle, Banks’ trip with Captain Cook on the Endeavour inspired and shaped a remarkable career in natural science.
When a sentence starts this way: "Just as Darwin had a fruitful voyage on the Beagle" (Just as someone did something), we must expect the main clause to say "Someone else did something similar". This means, the subject of the main clause must be some other person and the verb must be the same as or similar to the verb in the preceding comparative clause. (We know this because of the words "just as".)
If you change the subject and verb to anything else, you'll distort the idea and create a faulty comparison.
So, for choice B to be correct, we need the subject of the main clause to be "
Banks" and the verb/predicate to convey
that he had somewhat of a fruitful voyage/trip somewhere. Applying this to B, we'd get something like:
Just as
Darwin had a fruitful voyage on the Beagle,
Banks took an inspiring trip with Captain Cook on the Endeavour, a trip that shaped a remarkable career in natural science.
In its current form, choice B tells us that
Banks' trip did something just as Darwin did something. This is
illogical.
So, to conclude, we're not exactly looking for noun comparison. We're ensuring that the structures of the two clauses are identical so that the correct comparison is brought out.
I hope this helps.
Best,
Abhishek