Multiple choice softskills communication

Choose the wrong one:

  1. As guilty as he looks, he'll surely be convicted.

  2. As surely that this is payday, she'll be at the racetrack.

  3. She looked surprisingly calm, as harrowing as the trek had been.

  4. She did as poorly on the test as Mary.
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B Correct answer
Explanation

Option B is incorrect because it improperly uses 'as surely that' - it should be 'as surely as' for proper comparison. The structure requires two parallel elements being compared. Options A, C, D correctly use 'as...as' constructions (as guilty as, as harrowing as, as poorly as).

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