181. Bob Wilber became Sidney Bechets student and protégé when he was nineteen and, for a few years in the 1940s, came as close to being a carbon copy of the jazz virtuoso in performance as anyone has ever come.
(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came
Solution:
Parallelism**
as close as is the correct usage. Hence, D and E can be eliminated.
Verb + ever and not ever + verb is the correct usage. Hence, B and C can be eliminated.
A is the best choice.
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(A) as anyone has ever come
(B) as anyone ever had been
(C) as anyone ever had done
(D) that anyone ever did
(E) that anyone ever came
Solution:
Parallelism**
as close as is the correct usage. Hence, D and E can be eliminated.
Verb + ever and not ever + verb is the correct usage. Hence, B and C can be eliminated.
A is the best choice.
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