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To ensure the integrity of fossil evidence found at climatically unstable archeological sites, the immediate coating of newly exposed fossils with a specially formulated alkaline solution is as crucial, if not more crucial than, the prompt removal of the fossil from the site.


(A) crucial, if not more crucial than, the

(B) crucial as, if not more crucial than, the

(C) crucial as, if not more than the

(D) crucial, if not more crucial, than the

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Re: To ensure the integrity of fossil evidence found at climatically [#permalink] New post   07 Feb 2023, 08:43
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(A) crucial, if not more crucial than, the
"as .....as" lacks the as later . incorrect


(B) crucial as, if not more crucial than, the
hold on

(C) crucial as, if not more than the
after as need something we can compare to "the immediate coating of newly exposed fossils". however, in this it lacks the parallelism

(D) crucial, if not more crucial, than the
same as A

(E) crucial, if not more crucial, as the

between B & E ,in E after as....as "the prompt removal of the fossil " follows the second as, making it parallel to "the immediate coating of newly exposed fossils". in B however, "if not more crucial than" follows the as.
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Re: To ensure the integrity of fossil evidence found at climatically [#permalink] New post   07 Feb 2023, 09:32
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The immediate coating of newly exposed fossils with a specially formulated alkaline solution is as crucial, if not more crucial, as the prompt removal of the fossil from the site.

I choose to maintain the correct idiom as X as, but for sure it's a tricky question and I'm looking forward to know the OA.
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Re: To ensure the integrity of fossil evidence found at climatically [#permalink] New post   09 Feb 2023, 22:06
When is the OA is excepted to be published for this ?
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Re: To ensure the integrity of fossil evidence found at climatically [#permalink] New post   05 Mar 2023, 16:00
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To ensure the integrity of fossil evidence found at climatically unstable archeological sites, the immediate coating of newly exposed fossils with a specially formulated alkaline solution is as crucial, if not more crucial than, the prompt removal of the fossil from the site.


(A) crucial, if not more crucial than, the

(B) crucial as, if not more crucial than, the

(C) crucial as, if not more than the

(D) crucial, if not more crucial, than the

(E) crucial, if not more crucial, as the




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The correct answer is (B).

The original sentence suffers from faulty parallelism. Removing the second phrase of the comparison (set off by commas) reveals the omission of as (is as crucial . . . as). Choice (B) completes the form of the idiomatic phrase by including the word as.
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