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Recently, the former world bridge champion, Paul Chemla competed in the New York Cavendish Club’s prestigious invitational bridge tournament and, by earning second place, came as close to winning as any foreign player has ever come.
(A) as any foreign player has ever come
(B) as any foreign player ever had been
(C) as any foreign player ever had done
(D) that any foreign player ever did
(E) that any foreign player ever came
(A) as any foreign player has ever come
(B) as any foreign player ever had been
(C) as any foreign player ever had done
(D) that any foreign player ever did
(E) that any foreign player ever came
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13 Jun 2022, 01:59
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I chose (A). It took me 01:53.
"as close " should be followed as "as" for comparison. We can eliminated (DE).
It is a bit hard for me to confidently eliminate (BC). Note both use past perfection tense. We can reasonably guess Paul Chemla is a foreign player. So "any foreign player" can refer to Paul himself. He just won the second place. It is thus nonsensical to suggest "any foreign player" (who can be Paul) had come close before he did.
Also, "had been" is not parallel with "came".
"had done", on the other hand, may be considered parallel with "came" because "do" can be used to repeat the verb before.
Anyhow, the past perfect tense used in (BC) is a flaw that I identified to eliminated (BC).
(A) is ok. It can also be written as "as any foreign player has ever done".
"as close " should be followed as "as" for comparison. We can eliminated (DE).
It is a bit hard for me to confidently eliminate (BC). Note both use past perfection tense. We can reasonably guess Paul Chemla is a foreign player. So "any foreign player" can refer to Paul himself. He just won the second place. It is thus nonsensical to suggest "any foreign player" (who can be Paul) had come close before he did.
Also, "had been" is not parallel with "came".
"had done", on the other hand, may be considered parallel with "came" because "do" can be used to repeat the verb before.
Anyhow, the past perfect tense used in (BC) is a flaw that I identified to eliminated (BC).
(A) is ok. It can also be written as "as any foreign player has ever done".
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(A) as any foreign player has ever come
seems fine
(B) as any foreign player ever had been
"had been" makes it look like there's been a streak in past but was over in past as well. however,we know the winning is still not done .only coming close to the win is still on. so use of past tense makes is not valid
(C) as any foreign player ever had done
same as B
(D) that any foreign player ever did
"as..." must be followed by as."As.....that" is wrong
(E) that any foreign player ever came
same as D
IMO A
seems fine
(B) as any foreign player ever had been
"had been" makes it look like there's been a streak in past but was over in past as well. however,we know the winning is still not done .only coming close to the win is still on. so use of past tense makes is not valid
(C) as any foreign player ever had done
same as B
(D) that any foreign player ever did
"as..." must be followed by as."As.....that" is wrong
(E) that any foreign player ever came
same as D
IMO A
