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The New York literary critic Irving Howe embodied the [#permalink] New post   27 Feb 2004, 15:29
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The New York literary critic Irving Howe embodied the contradictions of many Jewish American intellectuals; he was as committed to the preservation and continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English .
A he was as committed to the preservation and continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English
B he was as committed to preserving the continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English
C he was as committed to the preservation and continued use of Yiddish like he was to the study of the great universal works of English
D he was committed to the preservation and continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English
E he was committed to preserving the continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English


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Re: The New York literary critic Irving Howe embodied the [#permalink] New post   27 Feb 2004, 15:42
IS A the Answer..A Tough choice between A and B....The unavailability of "THE" before continued made me to lean towards "preserving the continued use" as in B, But again there was a Parallelism error in B....
as.......as is the idiom here....
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Re: The New York literary critic Irving Howe embodied the [#permalink] New post   27 Feb 2004, 19:44
A should be the answer.
The equal importance of the preservation ...and study of... is best conveyed with the idiom as... as.... Therefore, C,D,E are out. B breaks the parallellism "to preserving... to the study of..."
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Re: The New York literary critic Irving Howe embodied the [#permalink] New post   01 Mar 2004, 01:14
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The New York literary critic Irving Howe embodied the contradictions of many Jewish American intellectuals; he was as committed to the preservation and continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English .
A he was as committed to the preservation and continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English
B he was as committed to preserving the continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English
C he was as committed to the preservation and continued use of Yiddish like he was to the study of the great universal works of English
D he was committed to the preservation and continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English
E he was committed to preserving the continued use of Yiddish as he was to the study of the great universal works of English
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probably, it is (a). although, (d) sounds nice as well. in tough conditions of gmat, i'd go with (a)
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Re: The New York literary critic Irving Howe embodied the [#permalink] New post   01 Mar 2004, 10:10
This is a Comparison problem. In the original sense of the sentence, Howe was as committed to X... as he was to Y...Eliminate C, D, and E. The preservation is more parallel with the study than is preserving with the study. The correct answer is A.

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