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Opened in 1683, the Ashmolean was the first public museum in Great Britain, while earlier the Bodleian has been the first truly public library.
(A) while earlier the Bodleian has been
(B) where the Bodleian earlier is
(C) just as earlier the Bodleian had been
(D) as the earlier Bodleian has been
(E) the Bodleian earlier being
The right answer here should be
C. This question is primarily testing us on tenses, though there is a bit of idiomatic use thrown in.
The non-underlined portion of the sentence talks about an action in the past (uses simple past as well), and the underlined action presumably
refers to something that happened before this past event. If you remember your tenses right, this means that
the underlined action in the sentence (which is the first action chronologically) should take on the past-perfect tense.
Immediately, this helps us
eliminate Options A, B, D as they all use different tenses.
Option E - Option E is problematic in a more fundamental way. The part after the comma now has no relationship to the part before, breaking the meaning of the sentence.
OUTHence, the
right answer must be C. It uses the correct tense, and the use of "just as" links the Bodleian to the Ashmolean logically.
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but option C has co relative conjunction error shouldnt it be .. just as x.. so y.. so is missing in in the sentence
This is a good question by
Archit3110. It's true that the common syntax should go "just as x, so y". However, in this case, the 'just as' statement is 2nd. In such a circumstance, the correct construction would simply be
"y, just as x" as has been followed in C. Hence, C remains correct.
- Matoo