Patience Lovell Wright
Patience Lovell Wright, whose travelling waxworks exhibit preceded Madame Tussaud’s work by 30 years, became well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax.
(A) well known as much because of having an eccentric personality as for having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(B) well known as much for having an eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
(C) well known as much because of her eccentric personality as she was for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figure
(D) as well known for having an eccentric personality as having skillfully rendered popular public figures in wax
(E) as well known for her eccentric personality as for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figures
My Ques: What is wrong with option B?
Hi Riya,
Became as well known – Incorrect structure. ( As in a sentence acts similar to equal). Options D and E are out.
Option A – Because of having . Incorrect. Because of must follow a noun/noun phrase. Having is present participle.
Option C – Meaning not clear.
Actual meaning: Lovell Wright became well known because of her eccentric personality. Also she became well known for her skillful wax renderings of popular public figure.
There are 2 reasons why she became well known.
Option C is clear and concise.
Hope this helps !
Hi Riya,
A – uses because of incorrectly. The construction for because of is as follows
clause <because of> noun
B – poor parallelism. having an eccentric personality is placed in parallel with skillful wax renderings
C – became well known………..she was. Poor parallelism again
D – very wordy. As well known for………….as (FOR). The for is missing in the second element
E is the correct answer.
