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Personal trainers and fitness coaches are to the narcissistic 1980’s just like a private fencing master and dancing teacher was to an earlier time.

(A) just like a private fencing master and dancing teacher was
(B) as have been a private fencing master and dancing teacher
(C) what private fencing masters and dancing teachers were
(D) what private fencing masters and dancing teachers are
(E) just the same as private fencing masters and dancing teachers had been
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Personal trainers and fitness coaches are to the narcissistic 1980’s j [#permalink] New post   Updated on: 08 Nov 2019, 08:11
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A and B are to D, what X and Y are to Z.

Answer (D) is correct. We do not need past time, so (C) is incorrect.

Originally posted by mykrasovski on 08 Nov 2019, 07:44.
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Re: Personal trainers and fitness coaches are to the narcissistic 1980’s j [#permalink] New post   08 Nov 2019, 08:09
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This is a Subject-verb Agreement + Parallelism Error.

Correct Answer : D

In D, “X are to Y what P are to Q” is parallel. Hence, D is the best choice.
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Re: Personal trainers and fitness coaches are to the narcissistic 1980’s j [#permalink] New post   08 Nov 2019, 08:20
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Options C and D follow the correct idiomatic usage.

I will go for option D since present tense is more suitable here. This is because the non-underlined portion also uses present tense for a reference to a time in the past. Same should be followed for the underlined portion as well.
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Re: Personal trainers and fitness coaches are to the narcissistic 1980’s j [#permalink] New post   13 Nov 2019, 08:10
generis GMATNinja can you please help with this question? Why is C correct?

The sentence makes a comparison between what personal coaches and trainers were to 1980's with what fencing masters and dancing teachers were in, say, 1750's. I understand that we consider groups of people from different time periods, but since we are talking about the past, and the non-underlined part of the sentence uses "are", I thought it is reasonable to use "are" again to refer to an even earlier period of time.

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Re: Personal trainers and fitness coaches are to the narcissistic 1980’s j [#permalink] New post   14 Nov 2019, 02:40
Which is the correct answer ? C or D ?
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Re: Personal trainers and fitness coaches are to the narcissistic 1980’s j [#permalink] New post   20 Nov 2019, 01:44
What is the correct answer C or D?
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Re: Personal trainers and fitness coaches are to the narcissistic 1980’s j [#permalink] New post   11 May 2021, 19:43
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Bunuel wrote:
Personal trainers and fitness coaches are to the narcissistic 1980’s just like a private fencing master and dancing teacher was to an earlier time.

(A) just like a private fencing master and dancing teacher was
(B) as have been a private fencing master and dancing teacher
(C) what private fencing masters and dancing teachers were
(D) what private fencing masters and dancing teachers are
(E) just the same as private fencing masters and dancing teachers had been


Well, many of you are confused between Option C and Option D. And to be honest, the difference is so subtle that if you fail to absorb the meaning presented in it, you will definitely mark the wrong option D.

Option C is correct because the author wants to show the similarity between two different types of teachers in two different time frames. X are to Y what A were to B. This shows that X is replicating the behavior exhibited by A in an earlier time. If you say, X are to Y what A are to B. Then, it would seem as if both the events were happening simultaneously, which is not the intended meaning of the sentence.
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