Longtime California highway engineers say that in no period

Question

Longtime California highway engineers say that in no period  did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it did in the winter and spring of 1983, nor  was there ever a greater mud slide in the region than the one that occurred on may 2, 1983.

a- did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it did in the winter and spring of 1983, nor

b- had the Pacific Coast Highway taken a worse battering than it did in the winter and spring of 1983, or

c- has the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it had in the winter and spring of 1983, or

d- did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it had in the winter and spring of 1983, or

e- did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it has in the winter and spring of 1983, nor

haas_mba07 · Answer

Going with A.

a- did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it did in the winter and spring of 1983, nor 

Confusing one for me...

Require "nor was..." eliminate B, C, D

E uses "has" eliminate..

answer: A

uvs_mba · Answer

Nothing wrong with A.

Its parallel and the tense is fine too.

buzzgaurav · Answer

Straight A.

Longtime California highway engineers say that in no period  did the  Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than  it did  in the winter and spring of 1983, nor was there ever a greater mud slide in the region than the one that occurred on may 2, 1983.

GMATT73 · Answer

unparallel. did...did...

**Incidentally, this question must have been written before 2004 because the infamous "La Conchita mudslide" was by far the worse on record. SoCal residents can attest to this.

Futuristic · Answer

straight A, we need nor. b,c,d out.
has in E is incorrect

duttsit · Answer

A is more llel that B. A: Longtime California highway engineers say that - in no period did - nor was B would have been correct, IMO, if it said: Longtime California highway engineers say - that in no period did - or that in no period was

karlfurt · Answer

A too.

But

...in no period did the Pacific Coast Highway take a worse battering than it did in the winter and spring of 1983

Is the tense correct? shouldn't it be : ... had the PCH taken a worse battering than it did.
I think past perfect is required since it is about hypothetical events occuring before 1983...

and there were few SC such this one, and if I can remember, there were constructed with past perfect.

Am I wrong?

Longtime California highway engineers say that in no period

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