<p>Gordon Parks is (almost as skillful a writer as he is a director). </p>
<p>(A) almost as skillful a writer as he is a director
(B) almost equally skilled, whether a writer or a director
(C) of the same skill as a writer and as a director, almost
(D) a skillful director, with almost as much skill in writing
(E) skilled as a director and almost so skilled in writing </p>
<p>Answer: A</p>
<p>Ok, I understand A is probably correct. However, why is D incorrect?</p>
<p>THANKS
Robbie</p>
<p>Because “with almost as much skill in writing” is a dependent clause after a comma.</p>
<p>im not sure if it distorts the meaning a lil, but A is CB-type of right answer, because it’s parallel and concise. and u can kinda feel that D is wrong, “almost as much skill” what the heck? thats just whacked.</p>
<p>I need to learn grammar rules, maybe if i do my writing score will go up</p>
<p>because of a flaw in parallel structure. The whole sentence would read like this:
“Gordon parks is a skillful director, with almost as much skill in writing.”
You have to be consistent in your grammatical comparisons and uses of words. In choice A, the word “skillful” is used in the same grammatical way to describe two things.</p>
<p>@ arnoc , actually i think that’s a phrase,so it is okay</p>
<p>also to add, skillful and skill in D, falls under the “Redundancy” wrong answers of SAT.</p>
<p>The comma is definitely improperly placed, ie., it shouldn’t be in that sentence at all.</p>
<p>It’s an example of faulty parallelism. He has almost as much skill in writing as he has skill in directing; he is almost as skillful a writer as he is skillful a director. However, he is not almost as skillful a director as he has skill at writing.</p>